Etiket: Wetlands
Sainte-Anne-du-Sault road stop | Wetlands destroyed for parking
Transports et Mobilité durable Québec was authorized to destroy wetlands to build parking for heavy goods vehicles as part of the modernization work at the Sainte-Anne-du-Sault rest area, in Center-du-Québec,…
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,…
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…
More than 60,000 m² of wetlands destroyed in the coming days by Northvolt
Intensive trucking began this Wednesday on the Northvolt site, while the company plans to destroy more than 60,000 m in the coming days2 wetlands, in order to prepare the land…
Backfilling of wetlands | Around a hundred trucks per day at the Northvolt site
Around a hundred trucks will circulate daily, starting Wednesday, in the vicinity of the site which will host the Northvolt battery cell mega-factory, in Montérégie: the company has just obtained…
Wetlands on Northvolt Field | “The reaction took us by surprise”
Interview with Northvolt North America CEO, Paolo Cerruti Published at 12:47 a.m. Updated at 5:00 a.m. Four months after the official announcement of the launch of its 7 billion mega-factory…
Expropriations and modification of wetlands planned to supply electricity to a graphite mine
Forced to bypass agricultural land to supply the open-pit mine that Nouveau Monde graphite is planning in Lanaudière, Hydro-Québec may have to build a transmission line that will cross a…
Northvolt will encroach on wetlands “identified” for their ecological interest
In addition to all the wetlands that will disappear from the site of the future Northvolt factory, the Legault government has authorized the company to encroach on wetlands “identified” for…
Northvolt begins deforestation and destruction of wetlands
Northvolt has started deforestation and destruction of wetlands in preparation for the establishment of its factory. And even if this work takes place partly when it is dark, the company…
Wetlands on Northvolt Field | A real estate project blocked in the spring
As recently as last March, the Ministry of the Environment blocked the real estate project of the previous owner of the land of the former CIL explosives factory because it…
A total of 74 wetlands on the Northvolt site
The natural site which will be destroyed in large part to make way for the Northvolt gigafactory thanks to public funds has no less than 74 wetlands, we learned The…
Quebec is failing to protect its wetlands, concludes the Commissioner for Sustainable Development
The government of Quebec is doing too little in terms of protecting wetlands and bodies of water to respect a key objective of its law, warns the commissioner for sustainable…
Quebec fails to protect its wetlands
The government of Quebec is doing too little in terms of protecting wetlands and bodies of water to respect a key objective of its law, warns the commissioner for sustainable…
Filling of wetlands | Legal battle between Quebec and promoters
Quebec is currently waging a legal battle to have certificates of authorization issued before 2017, which allow the filling of wetlands, cancelled. The Ministry of the Environment maintains that these…
Wetlands | A naturist club in the crosshairs of the Ministry of the Environment
After a standoff that has lasted nearly 10 years, Quebec has just ordered the naturist club Adam and Eve to stop illegal work in wetlands and restore areas destroyed since…
The Adam and Eve naturist club accused of destroying wetlands
Despite numerous interventions by the Quebec Ministry of the Environment, the owners of the Club naturiste Adam et Ève have carried out work on several occasions that has destroyed wetlands…
Creation of new wetlands | Quebec wants to increase the pace
Quebec wants to correct the situation in order to accelerate the restoration and creation of wetlands. The Minister of the Environment, Benoit Charette, will announce this Friday a review of…
Wetlands | Beauceville blamed for a clear cut
The City of Beauceville razed wetlands without a permit to expand its industrial park and illegally paid more than $2 million to an industrial development organization. Posted at 5:00 a.m.…
Quebec could review its regulations on wetlands
Quebec says it is open to reviewing its regulations on wetlands to prevent more losses in certain regions. Posted at 1:23 p.m. The Minister of the Environment and the Fight…
Protection of wetlands | Another environmental fiasco
PHOTO HUGO-SÉBASTIEN AUBERT, LA PRESSE ARCHIVES Quebec has lowered the amounts that must be paid by promoters in certain regions to compensate for the disappearance of the wetlands that they…