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The Technoparc landfill site in Montreal continues to discharge PCBs into the St. Lawrence River, threatening fish habitat and belugas. Leachate from the landfill showed levels of PCBs 8.5 million times greater than the Canadian Water Quality Guidelines. At locations downstream of the landfill site, PCB levels in the St. Lawrence River were up to 941,000 times the PCB Guideline.
On March 28, 2008, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) Secretariat presented the submission of Waterkeeper Alliance, Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, Société pour Vaincre la Pollution, Environmental Bureau of Investigation, and Upper St. Lawrence Riverkeeper to council for a vote on whether to make the final factual record available to the public.
The submitters assert Canada’s alleged failure to halt the ongoing discharges from Technoparc amounts to a failure to effectively enforce section 36(3) of the Fisheries Act.
Ask our Prime Minister why Canada is failing to enforce our Federal Fisheries Act – a strong piece of legislation that has the ability to ensure our lakes and rivers are protected.
We don’t need to re-write it…we need to enforce it!