Environment

Tuesday July 15, 2014

Potton moves forward with controversial project

The municipality of Potton has just voted to add a ''conditional usage'' to a private property beside a large nature reserve and land trust. It will allow for two motorized sporting events to take place there every year. Mayor Louis Veillon and Frédéric Allali, a member of the group ''Les Amis des Montagnes Vertes'',  explain their take on the controversial project. Listen here.

Categories: Eastern Townships, Environment

 

• August 2014
  • Tue., 5 – Proposed floating liquidied gas terminal on St.Lawrence River
     
• July 2014
  • Tue., 15 – Potton moves forward with controversial project
     
• June 2014
  • Thu., 26 – Junex's pilot project for shale gas exploration
     
  • Wed., 25 – Gaspé's York River not contaminated, says biologist
     
  • Fri., 13 – Recyc-RPM challenges Quebec recycling industry
     
  • Mon., 2 – Environment minister David Heurtel on oil and gas development
     
• May 2014
  • Wed., 7 – Anticosti: La chasse au pétrole extrême
     
  • Fri., 2 – Marine mammal experts concerned about Cacouna testing
     
• March 2014
  • Tue., 18 – Valero Energy on changes due to Enbridge Pipeline 9B reversal
     
  • Tue., 4 – Shannon court case likely delayed
     
• February 2014
  • Tue., 25 – Proposed revamping of Quebec's energy policy
     
  • Thu., 20 – No appetite for Apatite
     
  • Wed., 19 – Quebec's approaches to hydrocarbons
     
  • Mon., 17 – Environmental review of potential Quebec shale gas industry
     
• December 2013
  • Mon., 23 – Potential hydrocarbon development in the Gaspé
     
• November 2013
  • Wed., 27 – Public hearings on Enbridge pipeline reversal
     
  • Thu., 7 – Saguenay residents lukewarm to Arianne Phosphate project
     
• October 2013
  • Fri., 25 – Emergency response to disasters in Gulf of St. Lawrence
     
  • Fri., 4 – Rabaska project dead
     
  • Wed., 2 – Proposed fertilizer plant before BAPE hearings
     
• August 2013
  • Thu., 29 – Petrolia wants liquefied petroleum gel as fracking fluid, instead of water
     
  • Tue., 27 – World's largest phytoplankton-producing areas to be a new aquatic reserve
     
  • Wed., 21 – Exploring Canada's unmapped rivers
     
  • Fri., 16 – Lévis needs water before this Winter
     
  • Wed., 14 – Arsenic and cancerogenic chemicals found in the Chaudière river
     
  • Tue., 13 – Environmental groups oppose reversal of the 9b Enbridge pipeline fearing its rupture
     
  • Fri., 9 – Researchers concerned about gannet population
     
  • Mon., 5 – Marine oil terminal in Saint-Lawrence River will meet opposition from anti-Rabaska groups
     
  • Thu., 1 – Growing number of spruce budworms in Quebec forests
     
• July 2013
  • Fri., 26 – An 82-day expedition to the Canadian Arctic
     
  • Wed., 24 – Turning abandoned mining sites into fertile soil
     
  • Tue., 23 – An odor causes tourists to flee and city officials to worry
     
  • Tue., 23 – Alarming presence of didymo algae in rivers of the Gaspé peninsula
     
  • Fri., 19 – Climate change affecting northern Quebec wildfires
     
  • Tue., 9 – Protecting the Chaudière River
     
  • Fri., 5 – A public consultation to develop a new energy policy
     
• June 2013
  • Wed., 5 – Potential oil development on Anticosti Island
     
• May 2013
  • Fri., 24 – High school students raise trout to help promote ecological diversity
     
  • Thu., 16 – Leatherback turtles making their way to the Saint-Lawrence Gulf
     
  • Tue., 14 – Endangered species list could harm Atlantic salmon population
     
  • Tue., 14 – Plant to transform animal carcasses into clean energy
     
  • Thu., 2 – Quebec's cap-and-trade way of reducing greenhouse gases begins
     
• March 2013
  • Mon., 18 – Gaspé standing tall to Petrolia's oil-drilling interests
     
• January 2013
  • Fri., 25 – Oil drilling rigs in Gaspé will remain silent...for now
     
  • Thu., 24 – Quebec City ends effective composting project
     
  • Tue., 22 – The future of the George River caribou at risk
     
  • Tue., 15 – Gaspé drops the hammer on Petrolia's oil drilling plans
     
  • Mon., 14 – Citizen's group opposes drilling
     
  • Tue., 8 – New carbon cap-and-trade regulations in effect in Quebec
     
• December 2012
  • Thu., 20 – Arrimage du Saint-Laurent on red dust in Quebec City
     
  • Fri., 14 – Tursujuq Park is Quebec's newest provincial park
     
• October 2012
  • Fri., 26 – Environmental impact of oil or gas development in Gulf of St. Lawrence
     
  • Tue., 23 – Thetford Mines planning for a future without asbestos mining
     
  • Thu., 18 – Uranium exploration project in the Otish Mountains
     
  • Wed., 17 – Planning the future of the community of Asbestos
     
• September 2012
  • Thu., 27 – Oil companies continue exploration in the Gaspé
     
  • Mon., 24 – Parti Québécois Yves-François Blanchet on potential impact of Gentilly 2 closure
     
  • Mon., 24 – Mayor of Bromont on what might be next for Quebec's asbestos-producing regions
     
  • Fri., 21 – Business sector in Bécancour worried about Gentilly-2 shutdown
     
  • Wed., 19 – Federal government's changes to asbestos policy welcomed by activists