Case of Summerside developer charged with environmental, criminal offences adjourned again

Nicola MacLeod · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 28, 2025 12:58 PM EDT | Last Updated: 13 minutes ago

The lawsuit against developer Nathan Kember and his institution Strategic Holdings Inc. did not spell up arsenic planned connected Friday successful Summerside provincial court.

Kember, 32, personally faces 7 charges nether the province's Environmental Protection Act and 4 transgression charges, including threatening to termination employees of the section that oversees that legislation.

The institution of which Kember is the president is besides facing 4 biology charges. 

Kember did not look personally successful tribunal Friday. His lawyer appeared virtually and told the tribunal his lawsuit welcomed a caller babe this week, but besides said they were not prepared to proceed connected the matters. 

Jordan Brown told the tribunal determination were inactive processes and details to beryllium sorted retired betwixt himself and the Crown, partially owed to scheduling conflicts, but helium hoped the lawsuit could determination on successful the coming days. 

Judge Krista MacKay told the country she was "not peculiarly happy" the biology charges were not being dealt with Friday, arsenic that was the anticipation she had acceptable astatine the past appearance. 

Kember's biology charges, allegedly for enactment done successful oregon astir a wetland without the due permits, were archetypal addressed astatine a court quality successful November.

The charges person travel earlier the tribunal respective times since, adjourned each clip truthful that the defence could question a solution with the Crown — who echoed MacKay's comments Friday astir the proceedings not going ahead.

Crown Attorney Chad McQuaid besides noted that his bureau has received a batch of correspondence astir this record — possibly much than immoderate different record successful his career.

"At this point, I judge the shot is successful Mr. Brown's court," helium told the judge.

MacKay adjourned the lawsuit to adjacent month, noting that she would beryllium taking pleas connected the biology charges that day.

"There's going to beryllium a plea… It's going to beryllium blameworthy oregon not guilty," she said. "In 2 weeks time, I'm taking a plea 1 mode oregon the other. This has gone connected agelong enough."

There was besides speech connected Friday that Kember's transgression charges mightiness beryllium diverted to alternate measures, a process extracurricular of the judicial system.

In bid to beryllium eligible for the programme connected P.E.I., the accused indispensable judge work for the transgression and beryllium consenting to enactment successful the programme done probation services. 

If the idiosyncratic completes the steps outlined successful an statement crafted under the program, the charges are stayed. If not, the substance comes backmost earlier the courts.