Be careful not to oversalt the rivers!
January 19, 2022
Chaque hiver, 800 000 tonnes de sels de déglaçage sont appliqués sur les routes du Québec, nous apprend le Ministère des Transports (2019). Ces substances
Chaque hiver, 800 000 tonnes de sels de déglaçage sont appliqués sur les routes du Québec, nous apprend le Ministère des Transports (2019). Ces substances
Press release - Seven new mayors sensitive to environmental issues have been elected in Quebec's seven largest cities. Longueuil, Saguenay, Laval, Quebec City, Gatineau, Terrebonne and Sherbrooke alone are home to half of Quebec's population, and are responsible for 42% of the total intensity of wastewater spills in Quebec, as demonstrated by the dismal 2020 wastewater spill chart.
Press release - We unveiled our 2020 Palmares last week and, unfortunately, a mistake was made in the manipulation of our powerful, but oh so complex, database. Our calculations in terms of spill intensity are rigorously accurate, but it's in expressing this intensity in terms of population numbers that we made the mistake.
Press release - For the second year in a row, Fondation Rivières has released a tool that lets you discover the list of municipalities that stand out in terms of the intensity of their wastewater discharges in 2020. It has also updated the interactive discharge map on its website with the new 2020 data, revealing that there were almost 53,000 wastewater discharges last year in Quebec.
Press release - Fondation Rivières has released the report on a pollution survey carried out in Témiscamingue in collaboration with the Organisme de Bassin Versant du Témiscamingue (OBVT).
Olymel operates four swine maternity units in Témiscamingue and, curiously, the water quality of the Rivière à la Loutre and the Petite rivière Blanche is very poor.
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