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14 Wednesday October 21 2015 JUSTICE RCMP ROUND-UP All services will continue without interruption. www.dot.gov.nt.ca Were moving to 5015 - 49 Street www.dot.gov.nt.ca Moving Monday October 26 The Yellowknife Driver and Vehicle Licensing Oce is moving to the rst oor in the new oce building downtown. By CRAIG GILBERT Sitting MLA Michael Nadli has been sen- tenced to 45 days in jail. Before being charged with assault causing bodily harm in April the Deh Cho MLA had indicated he intended to run for re-election. He pleaded guilty to the charge in June the second time he had been convicted for assault. In 2004 he was sentenced to six months probation for assaulting his spouse. The court heard Nadli left his family home in Fort Providence to attend church leaving his wife with one of his sons. The son phoned Nadli to tell him his wife was talking on the phonewithanotherman.WhenNadlireturned he dumped out her beer and demanded she leave. When she did not he slapped her and tried to pull her out of the house by the arm. Doctors later determined her wrist had been broken. NadlitheformerGrandChiefoftheDehcho First Nations did not respond to a message sent to his government email address. CommunicationsdirectorforcabinetAndrew Livingstone said in an email it would be inap- propriateforthepremieroranycabinetminister tocommentonthecase.TheclerkoftheGNWT legislature Tim Mercer issued a press release Oct.15statingNadlihadbeenautomaticallydis- qualiedfromsittingoractingasanMLAand was no longer eligible for any benets or pay. Although the seat is not formally declared vacant until the time for Mr. Nadlis right of appeal has expired or any appeal has been MLA suspended after jail sentence for assault decided vacancy will nonetheless occur on October 25 2015 as a result of the dissolu- tion of the 17th Legislative Assembly and the calling of a general election on Oct. 26 Mer- cer wrote. A by-election is not necessary and the Legislative Assembly is not required to reconvene to address this matter. Prisoner rushed from Fort Smith cell block The scream of an ambulances siren pierced the early evening in Fort Smith Friday Oct. 16 as a prisoner was rushed from the RCMP detachments cell block. Officers found the elderly male prisoner in medical distress shortly after 6 p.m. and summoned EMS who transported him to the local health centre. He was later brought by medevac to Edmonton for fur- ther treatment. The brass at G Division headquarters in Yellowknife has brought in an outside police service to investigate the circumstances. The prisoners family has been notied. Deadly rollover near Behchoko One person was killed and two others in- jured after a vehicle rolled over on Highway 3 between Fort Providence and Behchoko according to the RCMP. Amotoristcameacrossthecrashatkilometre 114 near Chan Lake just before 10 a.m. on Oct. 16. Police are still investigating they believe slipperyroadconditionsmayhavebeenafactor. RCMP nd generator Yellowknife RCMP are keeping a DeWalt generator safe until its owner appears. A resident found the generator in a wooded area on 52nd street and reported it to police. Any person who believes it may be theirs is asked to contact Yellowknife RCMP at 867- 669-5200. Be prepared to provide a descrip- tion. Anyone calling to verify ownership may be asked to provide a serial number. Liquor seized in dry community A 45-year-old Paulatuk man faces prohi- bition charges after liquor was discovered at the airport. Policelocatedandseizedthree1.77-litrebot- tles of vodka one 1.18 L bottle of whiskey and one 200 ml bottle of whiskey. Restrictions on the possession of alcohol have been in effect in Paulatuk since 2008. Any person convicted of breaking the rules is liable to a ne or jail. Anyone who has information regarding this investigation or any other crime can contact the Paulatuk RCMP at 867- 580- 1111 or re- port anonymously through CrimeStoppers at 1-800-222-8477 nwtnutips.com or texting nwtnutips to 274637. DehCho MLA Michael Nadli was sentenced to 45 days for assault. Charges laid in 2013 Obed Mountain coal mine spill JUSTICE ENVIRONMENT By DALI CARMICHAEL Itsbeenalmosttwoyearssincecontaminants from the Obed Mountain Coal Mine spilled fromwastewaterpondintotheAthabascaRiver and now the companies responsible are facing consequences. Six charges relating to the October 2013 in- cident have been laid against and Sherritt In- ternational Corporation operating as Sherritt Coal and its subsidiary Coal Valley Resources Inc.CVRIaccordingtoareleasefromOct.16. BruceMacleananenvironmentalconsultant managingcommunityenvironmentalmonitoring programs for the Mikisew Cree and Athabasca ChipewyanFirstNationssaidtheyarehappyto see legal action being taken but still have res- ervations over the transparency of the process. The process by which those violations were chosenisstillbeingkeptfromussotheyarestill notreleasinginformationhesaid.Theycould haveletthecompaniesoffsothecommunities are happy they are being charged but I think nobodyhasreallydoneasolidenoughjobonthe environmental monitoring to convince people one way or another of the impacts. Therearealsomanyquestionsfromthecom- munity about the impacts on their treaty and indigenous rights. Theinvestigationhasbeenunderthepurview oftheAlbertaEnergyRegulatorsinceMar.2014. It was transferred from Alberta Environment and Parks formerly Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development after the AER assumed responsibilities under the En- vironmental Protection and Enhancement Act EPEA and the Water Act. AER has stated that to protect the integrity of the legal process Investigation Summary ReportswillnotbepostedtotheitsCompliance Dashboarduntiltheenforcementiscompleted. Theleaktookplaceabout30kmEastofHin- ton Alta. and contaminated two tributaries of the Athabasca River with a slurry of water minerals occulent a thickener used during the production of coal and unrecovered coal. The report the company put out seems to indicate that a post freshet sediment survey that was conducted in 2014 - that would have been their research - found that all the deposit materials had been resuspended during that freshet and likely carried down to Lake Atha- basca Maclean said. It reinforces that any of the sump material will likely have settled out into the delta and be of a concern there. He noted the immediate impact concerns were with the sh habitat and the potential for the waste to smother spawning beds as it permeated the ecosystem contaminating it. The rst appearance for the charges is scheduled for Jan. 20 2016. Charges laid Onecountforacontraventionofsection227j oftheEnvironmentalProtectionandEnhance- mentActEPEAforreleasingasubstanceto the environment that caused or had the po- tential to cause a signicant adverse effect. One count for a contravention of section 227e of the EPEA for failing to comply with a condition of their EPEA approval. Twocountsforcontraventionsofsection1421 eoftheWaterActforfailingtocomplywith two conditions of their Water Act approval. Two counts for contraventions of section 561g of the Public Lands Act PLA for causing a disturbance to public land which constitutes an offence under section 541 e and 541a.1. Filephoto