Oil company suing town over water safety laws - Canada

These bloody corporations think they own everything. Some town in Canada has passed water safety laws that you can't drill for gas or whatever within 2km's of the towns water supply. Well an oil company is suing the town over it. A spectacular example of corporations walking over laws that are for the safety and well being of the community. All for a few extra dollars in shareholders pockets. How obscene.

The Gaspésie village of Ristigouche-Sud-Est is being sued by Gastem, a Quebec-based oil and gas exploration and development company, for passing a bylaw in March 2013 establishing a two-kilometre no-drill zone near its municipal water sources. 

Now the town, which is home to 168 people, is facing a lawsuit five times its annual budget. 

Gastem president Raymond Savoie said the passage of the bylaw was done without consulting the company. more