A Kenora businessman is facing a hefty fine for illegally taking gravel from a local pit.Roland Roen was fined 10 thousand dollars for 13 counts of failing to pay annual fees, another two thousand dollars for operating a gravel pit without a permit and two thousand for harvesting on crow land without a licence.
The court heard that Roen had been hired by Ontario Hydro to repair a road in the Gundy Lake area back in 2008.
Material used for the road repair was removed from a nearby small pit on Crown land, for which Roen did not have a permit.
He also removed trees from three of his aggregate pits without obtaining a forest resource licence.
