The company Service 3R Valorisation and its president, Simon Bergeron, will have to pay a fine of $20,800 for having collected environmental infractions for years at its sorting center in Montreal East.
The company which until recently operated a sorting center in Montreal East, and its owner Simon Bergeron, were recently found guilty of violations of the Environmental Quality Act.
Service 3R Valorisation was fined $7,500 to which was added the reimbursement of $4,779. Simon Bergeron was ordered to pay a fine of $5,000 plus costs of $3,529.
The company has been collecting environmental infractions for more than 10 years at its sorting center located in Montreal East. Last April, the Ministry of the Environment had also prohibited it from accepting new residual materials until its sorting line was completely cleared so that it could “really” sort the materials present on the site. .
The authorization granted to it prohibited piles of residual materials exceeding five meters. Over the past year, the piles of materials to be sorted were almost double this height.
The duty reported last month that Service 3R Valorisation had ceased its activities. The lawyer who until recently represented Service 3R Valorisation, Karl-Emmanuel Harrison, confirmed to Duty that the company “no longer operates” this Montreal sorting center.
A numbered company owned by Lior Azerad – a municipal councilor for the City of Côte Saint-Luc who is a major creditor of the company – recently took steps to seize the building, land and financial assets of 3R Valorisation .
The duty also noted that at the same time as this sanction, the City of Montreal-East filed – on September 21 – a notice of sale of the company’s building for not having paid municipal taxes.
With Marie-Eve Cousineau
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