Province loses appeal; CN will pay only $17,000 as a result of wildfire

B.C.’s highest court has rejected an appeal from the provincial government seeking a quarter-million dollars in lost timber revenue from CN Rail after sparks from a train ignited a massive wildfire west of Kamloops in 2005. On July 29, 2005, the braking mechanism of a CN train in the Ashcroft area sparked a blaze, initially ...