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Two P.E.I. potato farmers fined

October 4, 2013, Charlottetown, PEI – Two Island potato farmers who were charged with planting their crop on a hill that was too steep were recently found guilty in provincial court in Charlottetown.

Alex Docherty, who is Community Services Minister Valerie Docherty’s husband, and his brother-in-law Blake MacDonald will each have to pay $3,150 in fines for violating the Environmental Protection Act in 2012. READ MORE