{"id":341,"date":"2009-09-29T15:10:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T19:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/?p=341"},"modified":"2023-02-14T11:01:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T16:01:45","slug":"votre-mission-avez-vous-des-boues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/votre-mission-avez-vous-des-boues\/","title":{"rendered":"Your mission: Do you have sludge?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WATCH YOUR NEXT MISSIONS!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fondation Rivi\u00e8res and Daniel Green, from the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Pour Vaincre la Pollution (SVP), are preparing a report on water quality in Quebec. <strong>We need your information.<\/strong> Several citizens in agricultural areas discovered by chance that the Ministry of the Environment (MDDEP) had issued authorizations to spread sludge from sewage treatment plants and paper mills in their sector. Today, around 1 million tonnes of this waste, adorably nicknamed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mddep.gouv.qc.ca\/matieres\/articles\/ferme.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fertilizing residual materials or MRF<\/a> by governments, are spread each year on agricultural lands in Quebec. Some municipalities, for example in Elgin, are currently before the courts to ban the spreading of MRFs. Generally, sludge is stored by a company in silos or natural ponds, called lagoons, before being spread.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is what you need to do to check if you are receiving sludge from factories or paper mills:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Inform your elected officials and your councilors if there are sludge authorization certificates in the territory of your municipality.<\/p>\n<p>2. Visit the site of the <a class=\"wpGallery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mddep.gouv.qc.ca\/regions\/region.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MDDEP in your region<\/a> in the public register in an industrial environment to check whether certificates have been issued. DON&#039;T BE TRUSTED. They may exist even if they are not registered in the official register.<\/p>\n<p>3. Contact Fondation Rivi\u00e8res.<\/p>\n<p>We thank you in advance,<\/p>\n<p>The Fondation Rivi\u00e8res team<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Matt Hardy \u2013 Unsplash<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SURVEILLEZ VOS PROCHAINES MISSIONS! Fondation Rivi\u00e8res et Daniel Green, de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Pour Vaincre la Pollution (SVP) pr\u00e9parent un dossier sur la qualit\u00e9 de l&rsquo;eau au Qu\u00e9bec. Nous avons besoin de vos informations. Plusieurs citoyens en zone agricole ont d\u00e9couvert par hasard que le minist\u00e8re de l&rsquo;environnement (MDDEP) avait \u00e9mis des autorisations d&rsquo;\u00e9pandage de boues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[29,79],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualites","tag-coliformes","tag-pollution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}