Rustico Harbor shack to stay: owner

CHARLOTTETOWN — P.E.I.'s Environment Department gave Lorne Larkin until midnight of last Friday to remove a cottage-like building he placed on a sandbar in Rustico Harbor.

But the building still remains and Larkin says it's not going anywhere.

The province issued a ministerial order to remove the building, but Larkin has filed papers with the province laying claim to the 35-acre sandbar. It formed over the last few decades in Rustico Harbor and he says the building stays.

Government officials say each day the building remains, Larkin could be fined from $200 to $10,000, plus jail time of 90 days for each day he fails to comply.

The government says it may also remove the building and send Larkin a bill or it could get a court order to try to force him further.

Environment officials were on site yesterday, but they left the building where it was.

Lewie Creed is the deputy minister and says something will be done, he just hasn't decided yet what that will be.