Canada’s Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault took advantage of World Water Day to announce funding of more than $800,000 for “new projects and ongoing initiatives” to improve water quality. water of the St. Lawrence.
Steven Guilbeault was in Repentigny, in Lanaudière, Friday morning, to unveil the names of the organizations which will obtain funding “as part of the Community Interactions Program”.
In a press release, the ministry indicated that “the ZIP Committee of Lordships received $200,000 to carry out grubbing and shrub planting activities to counter the common reed, an invasive exotic plant species (EVEE) present in the ‘Île-Lebel, Repentigny’.
For its part, the Haut-Saint-Laurent ZIP Committee received $97,000 to restore, revegetate and “carry out actions to control invasive exotic plant species” in L’Île-Perrot.
Finally, an amount of $75,000 is also granted to the Abenaki Council of Odanak in order to build a stream and thus improve the circulation of yellow perch and increase the area of its habitat.