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by Mike Caswell

Western Wind Energy Corp. has filed two petitions in the Supreme Court of British Columbia seeking to identify a pair of Stockhouse users known as "j_mart" and "patheticnews." The company complains about posts they wrote that called Western Wind's chief executive officer, Jeff Ciachurski, a crook and a stock manipulator. Western Wind is seeking a court order that will compel Stockhouse to provide IP addresses or any other identifying information for the posters.

The company filed the two nearly identical petitions (one for each user) on Thursday, May 17, at the Vancouver courthouse, naming Stockhouse Publishing Ltd. as the respondent. In them, Western Wind contends that posts appearing under the names j_mart and patheticnews on Stockhouse between Dec. 16, 2011, and April 30, 2012, were defamatory. The messages, which are quoted in affidavits attached to the petitions, mostly spoke about Mr. Ciachurski.

One by j_mart on April 24 stated, "Maybe cardinal was right when he said jeffy was trying to steal the company ... ." That post came five weeks after another j_mart post, which read, "when he was on BNN he said he wanted a listing on NASDAQ and said he would get the share price up shortly to get listed, you cant believe a friggin thing that comes out of this guys mouth ... ."

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