Stay-at-home Mother Sued For Reporting Environmental Problems

14 November 2005 - 10:00am

Louisette Lanteigne created a website to report environmental problems in her neighborhood. She is being sued for libel by a developer.

A stay-at-home mother of three who created a website to alert the government about allegedly dangerous environmental problems in her southwestern Ontario neighbourhood is facing a $2 million libel suit by one of the developers she reported on...Her efforts led to letters and kudos from various government officials for reporting alleged violations...But not everyone was happy with her reports."

Source: Canoe, November 13, 2005
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