A leading critic of a company that dismantles and recycles ships on a stretch of Vancouver Island shoreline has been awarded more than $165,000 by the B.C. Supreme Court after a judge determined the company had unduly delayed litigation.
Deep Water Recovery’s 111-acre beachfront facility at Union Bay receives ships and barges from across B.C. and overseas. When a vessel arrives, workers cut it into smaller sections with shears and torches.
The leftover materials — which include wood debris, steel, rusted metal, septic system discharge and other effluents — are then divided up for disposal and recycling, according to provincial inspection reports.
The Union Bay operation has been the target of significant local opposition since they
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