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Old dreams die hard and Colin Beach, the aptly named West Vancouver entrepreneur behind Rain Coast Water Corp., refuses to let his go.

In February, the B.C. Court of Appeal appeared to drive a stake through the heart of his hoary litigation, which has haunted the courthouse since 1996.

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But the man who mounted a quixotic decades-long legal war over the scuttling of his vision to ship B.C. water to parched California is battling on.

Invoking ghosts from the dead Social Credit Party and an NDP administration from the last century, Beach continues to insist governments screwed him out of the profits from slaking California’s thirst.

After digesting the lengthy appeal ruling putting the boots to the trial judge in his case, Beach concluded the justices ignored an important fact — a key figure wasn’t as old as they thought he was!

Jack Farrell, the former deputy comptroller of water rights, who canceled the water licences but who was not a party to the suit, was described as “approaching 90 years old” with no recollection and so was never called as a witness.