After exploring the Arctic, diving in underwater caves all over the world and filming white sharks, Nathalie Lasselin is now on an adventure of her own.
Press release - On the eve of the City of Longueuil's eight-day "flushgate" of untreated wastewater, Fondation Rivières calls for six measures to significantly reduce the pollution caused by municipal decisions.
The documentary Québec Profond will premiere on Canal D on April 25, 2018 at 10 p.m., with a repeat broadcast on Friday, April 27
Press release - The worrying quality of the river water noted in July 2017 by the canoeists who paddled the Richelieu River during the Le Richelieu en 24h event prompted Fondation Rivières to identify sources of pollution of municipal origin. This study, the first of its kind on a watershed scale, revealed that wastewater discharges are still numerous, and that the lack of planning in the work to be carried out demonstrates haphazard infrastructure management. The report recommends a new approach to support municipalities in identifying and resolving the most significant environmental problems at watershed level.
Press release - One year after the Montreal spills, now known as flushgate, Quebec City has announced four "planned" spills between November 22, 2016 and February 2017. The city repeated several elements of Montreal's argument, citing an absence of consequences given various nebulous factors, to conclude that the operation was comparable to an "oil change".
One year after flushgate, the major spill of Montreal's wastewater into the St. Lawrence River, efforts to minimize system overflows
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