Etiket: Northvolt
Northvolt proposed illegally backfilling wetlands with contaminated soil
Saying it wanted to act in a “logical” way, Northvolt proposed to the Quebec Ministry of the Environment to use an illegal method to fill in wetlands on its site,…
Northvolt will not reduce Quebec’s greenhouse gas emissions
The Legault government may repeat that the Northvolt project is necessary for the “decarbonization” of Quebec, but there is nothing to conclude that this plant will lead to a direct…
A nighttime screening to demand a BAPE on the Northvolt project
The environmental movement Mothers at the Front held a new action Monday evening to raise awareness among the population and the Legault government of the importance of Northvolt’s mega battery…
BAPE review | Northvolt had no free pass, maintains Fitzgibbon
(Quebec) Pierre Fitzgibbon maintains that the Northvolt mega-factory project was not entitled to preferential treatment to avoid an examination by the BAPE, despite the declarations of his colleague at the…
The Northvolt saga sends “a very bad message” about BAPE
Quebec Environment Minister Benoit Charette sent “a very bad message” by confirming that the Legault government had voluntarily chosen not to subject Northvolt to the environmental procedure imposed on large…
Northvolt: blame the CAQ mononcs, not the ecologists
François Legault and Pierre Fitzgibbon consider themselves business tycoons, above their affairs. Their disregard for the public and legitimate concerns for the environment is poisoning the Northvolt file, which is…
No inspection of the Northvolt site during the destruction of wetlands
The Quebec Ministry of the Environment did not carry out any inspections of the Northvolt site while the company destroyed more than 60,000 m2 wetlands, learned The duty. Only the…
Northvolt megafactory | The PQ requests a new investigation from the Auditor General
The Parti Québécois is calling for a new investigation from the Auditor General (VG) into the Northvolt mega-factory project, this time in connection with the revelations of The Press according…
Quebec’s lack of transparency is the main source of criticism in the Northvolt file
In the echo chamber of the Legault government, everything is going well. It is the fault of activists, ignorant people and opponents in general if the Northvolt project does not…
A welcome franchise on Northvolt
Finally a little frankness in the Northvolt issue from the CAQ, which yesterday emerged from its untenable speech of denial. • Read also: Quebec admits to helping Northvolt avoid BAPE…
Charette accused of failing in his duties in the Northvolt case
By exempting the Northvolt Six project from audits by the Office of Public Hearings on the Environment (BAPE) in order to attract its promoter to Quebec, Minister Benoit Charette failed…
Who can think that the Northvolt factory could be dismantled if it did not meet standards?
In July 1995, the report of a conversation with a group of ambassadors in which Jacques Parizeau compared a possible yes victory to a “lobster cage” in which Quebecers would…
Quebec is “lucky” to welcome Northvolt, says Benoit Charette
After asserting that imposing an environmental assessment process on Northvolt similar to other large industrial projects would have driven the company away, Quebec Environment Minister Benoit Charette argued Wednesday that…
Northvolt megafactory | The opposition and environmentalists outraged by the words of Benoit Charette
“Surreal”, “scandalous”, “unacceptable”; the opposition and environmental groups are taking aim at the Minister of the Environment, Benoit Charette, who argued in an interview with The Press that the Northvolt…
Northvolt megafactory | “We wouldn’t have had a project” with a BAPE, says Benoit Charette
Northvolt’s mega-factory project would have been derailed if it had had to undergo an assessment by the Bureau d’audiences publique sur l’environnement (BAPE), according to the Minister of the Environment,…
A document redacted at the request of Northvolt
The Northvolt company boasts of its desire to act in complete transparency, but it asked the Quebec Ministry of the Environment to hide the details of its factory project and…
Demonstrators demand a BAPE study into the Northvolt case
Around 200 people gathered on Sunday in downtown Montreal to demand that the Northvolt battery factory project be subject to an examination by the Bureau d’audiences publique sur l’environnement (BAPE).…
Northvolt project in Montérégie | No factory without BAPE, protesters demand
Hundreds of people demonstrated on Sunday in front of the office of Prime Minister François Legault in Montreal, demanding an independent environmental assessment of the future Northvolt battery factory in…
Northvolt Project: Mothers at the front manifest for the holding of a BAPE
More than a hundred people from the Mères au front group demonstrated in front of the offices of Prime Minister François Legault on Sunday to demand an investigation by the…
Pierre Fitzgibbon denounces the work of two journalists in the Northvolt file
The Minister of Economy, Innovation and Energy, Pierre Fitzgibbon, openly criticized the work of two journalists covering the Northvolt mega-factory issue in an email addressed to a citizen. Alain Gaulin,…