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Loggers ordered to pay farmer $53,000

A logging company appeared to have used "infamous talk and log strategy", a B.C. Supreme Court judge has commented in awarding a Prince George area farmer $53,000 for use of roads on his property to haul out timber from nearby harvesting operations.

A logging company appeared to have used "infamous talk and log strategy", a B.C. Supreme Court judge has commented in awarding a Prince George area farmer $53,000 for use of roads on his property to haul out timber from nearby harvesting operations.

In a ruling issued last week, Justice Victor Curtis found that Mid Mountain Ventures Ltd. began to use Almas Farm Road, which Alfred and Marianne Schneider had built to access their farm south of West Lake, "without giving any notice whatsoever to the Schneiders."