A local environmental activist has been ordered to pay $4,500 to Coco Paving after nearly a decade long battle at the Ontario Municipal Board over a big box development on Sprucewood Ave. and Matchette Rd.
Coco Paving was seeking $700,000 in legal costs from Nancy Pancheshan who took on the company to try to protect the endangered species in the Ojibway Prairie lands.
Pancheshan says it's frustrating that after a long fought battle nothing is being done to protect the lands and she still has to pay.
"The effort at the OMB made the park 10 acres larger but nothing has been done to address the traffic impacts to Ojibway and it's species," says Pancheshan.
A group of supporters have established a Go Fund Me campaign to help Pancheshan collect the money to pay the developer.
"It's incredibly frustrating. They're going to do harm to the ecosystem yet we have to pay, it's incredible. But the people who have started this Go Fund Me Campaign that's a breath of fresh air," says Pancheshan.
The campaign is raising funds to cover Panchesan's as well as another individual who was also ordered to pay Coco Paving for a similar battle.
