Former Kindersley MLA and Sask Party cabinet minister Bill Boyd finally received his sentence for two environmental charges which he pled guilty in February.
He was fined $35,000 in a sentence handed down Tuesday in Kindersley provincial court. Boyd had previously been fined $7,000 for one count under the Wildlife Habitat Protection Act. On Tuesday, he was fined an additional $28,000 for the other count under the Environmental Management and Protection Act, 2010.
Boyd was also ordered to remediate damage to the protected grasslands and to the shoreline. The sentence is in connection to cultivation activities on five acres of protected native grasslands, as well as excavation of a section of bank on the South Saskatchewan River south of Eston. The latter activity had been reported in July of last year in a tip called in to the province’s Turn In Poachers line.
The provicnial environment ministry encourages people who suspect wildlife, fisheries, forestry or environmental violations to call your local Ministry of Environment office, Saskatchewan’s toll-free TIP line at 1-800-667-7561, or call #5555 for SaskTel cellular subscribers, or report a violation online at www.saskatchewan.ca/tip.
