Richmond News
A consortium of major domestic and international airlines — including Air Canada and WestJet — planning to build a jet fuel delivery system on the banks of the Fraser River is seeking legal fees from VAPOR, a group of local citizens that took the companies to court last year.
VAPOR had unsuccessfully challenged the consortium’s environmental assessment on technical merits: that the provincial government and the consortium, known as the Vancouver Airport Fuel Facilities Corporation, did not provide for adequate public consultation leading up to the December 2013 granting of the environmental certificate.
Since losing the judicial review in B.C. Supreme Court in early 2015 the province has subsequently dropped its request to claw back legal fees. However, VAFFC is seeking compensation. …