Manitoba Scores Partial Victory in Water Dispute With North Dakota
Posted on: Friday, 22 February 2008, 15:00 CST
By THE CANADIAN PRESS
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government has scored a partial victory in a long-running court fight with North Dakota over water quality.
The North Dakota Supreme Court has ruled the state acted improperly in reducing some of the environmental standards used to operate the Devils Lake outlet, which drains water from the lake that eventually flows into Manitoba.
The court says the state was wrong to arbitrarily change one standard - the maximum allowable amount of suspended solids in the water - and must reverse its decision.
But the court upheld the state's decision to increase the maximum allowable sulphate levels in the water.
The Manitoba government and some U.S. environmental groups have said the sulphates could hurt water quality as far away as Lake Winnipeg.
Source: Canadian Press
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