Getting ‘SLAPPed’ by Big Oil?

warning petroleum pipelineBurnaby man refuses to settle with Kinder Morgan, campaigning for legislation to protect democracy

Speaking of freedom of expression — and given Paris, who hasn’t lately? — Alan Dutton found himself in B.C. Supreme Court Thursday fighting, he would say, for that same freedom on home ground. It’s a David versus Goliath case. Dutton is David; Goliath is the giant multinational pipeline company Kinder Morgan. Dutton is armed with his sense of rights and freedoms honed over a lifetime’s work; Kinder Morgan is wielding a multi-million dollar civil lawsuit.

Photo: By Thomas Hawk under the license CC BY-NC 2.0

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