{"id":29219,"date":"2026-03-18T16:16:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T16:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wagners1.wpenginepowered.com\/class-actions\/mud-lake-nl-flooding-class-action\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T18:27:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:27:05","slug":"mud-lake-nl-flooding-class-action","status":"publish","type":"class-action","link":"https:\/\/wagners.co\/es\/class-actions\/mud-lake-nl-flooding-class-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Mud Lake, NL Flooding Class Action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3>Chiasson v. Nalcor Energy et al<\/h3>\n<h3>Newfoundland &amp; Labrador Supreme Court File: 2017 7673 CP<\/h3>\nWagners filed a proposed class action lawsuit in the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador on November 23, 2017, seeking damages caused by rapidly rising water levels in the Churchill River on May 17, 2017.\u00a0 Flood waters caused extensive damage to residences in the community of Mud Lake and in surrounding areas.\u00a0 Many residents had to be evacuated, and some could not return to their home.\u00a0 The claim was filed on behalf of a Representative Plaintiff, John Chiasson, against both Nalcor Energy (now Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro) and the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.\n\nThe lawsuit alleges that the defendants were negligent in the design, engineering, planning, construction, commissioning, ownership, operation, maintenance, and management of Nalcor Energy's hydro-electric generating project at Muskrat Falls, upstream of Mud Lake. The lawsuit alleges the defendants failed to act reasonably to ensure that residents living in the affected areas were protected from property damage and other harms.\n\nOn July 11, 2019, Justice Gillian D. Butler released her decision certifying the lawsuit as a class proceeding. \u00a0A copy of the decision may be found under the Documents tab.\n\nThe Province of Newfoundland and Labrador appealed the certification decision to the Court of Appeal, who allowed the appeal, removing the Province from the action. This means the class action remains certified as a class proceeding against Nalcor Energy and will proceed to a common issues trial against that one Defendant. Dates for the trial are yet to be scheduled.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wagners has filed a class action on behalf of residents affected by flooding of the Churchill River and Mud Lake in May 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class-action-status":[14],"class_list":["post-29219","class-action","type-class-action","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","class-action-status-open"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagners.co\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/class-action\/29219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagners.co\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/class-action"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagners.co\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/class-action"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagners.co\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"class-action-status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagners.co\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/class-action-status?post=29219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}