The Toronto Star article on snow clearance problems in February 2008 highlighting issues for side street residents.
Snow-clearing crews in Montreal have been in action since early Monday, at the beginning of the first big storm of the season, and the cleanup will cost the city $17 million, according to Coun. Marcel Tremblay.
New bylaw on snow clearance and snow removal
At its November 4 meeting, Saint-Laurent Borough Council adopted a new bylaw respecting the clearance and removal of snow originating on private property
MONTREAL (AFP) – Each snowstorm that hits Montreal is a prelude to a highly choreographed ballet: some 2,200 trucks straight out of a sci-fi movie launch into a frenzied race to evacuate the white powder.
Some programs and services are on the chopping block as officials scramble to avoid a massive city deficit this year.
A report going before council tomorrow recommends cutting the snow removal budget, decommissioning trolleys a year early, charging people to use LRT parking lots and cutting back the hours of city leisure centres, among other things.
Excerpts from Quebec Mines web site with links.
$4.1 million to clean up 18 exploration sites in the Nord-du-Quebec region
On August 24, 2007, the Ministère des Ressources naturelles et de la Faune (MRNF), the Kativik Regional Government (KRG), the Makivik Corporation and the Fonds Restor-Action Nunavik entered into a $4.1 million agreement to clean up 18 abandoned mineral exploration sites in Nunavik. The agreement provides for the sites to be totally cleaned up by spring 2012. The rehabilitation will be managed by the KRG.
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A new guide for mining site rehabilitation in Quebec
The Ministère des Ressources naturelles et de la Faune (MRNF), in cooperation with the Ministère du Développement durable, de l’Environnement et des Parcs (MDDEP), has just completely revised Québec’s Guidelines for Preparing a Mining Site Rehabilitation Plan.
This tool has been made available to the mining industry to make it easier to prepare a rehabilitation plan that complies with the requirements of the Mining Act. The Guidelines were due for an update, since the laws, regulations and directives that govern mining activity in Québec have been revised in recent years.
The new guide should be accessible on the MRNF’s Website before the end of 2007.
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Radioactive wreckage and tens of millions of landmines still blight Iraq after decades of war and the deadly violence that engulfed the nation after the 2003 invasion, the environment minister has said.
Article link Space war com
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2008 proved to be a very successful year at Gauthier Collins inc. three major environmental projects are under development by our business partners and we are currently working on two more projects for the 2009 campaign.
We would like to thank our business development partners for all the hard work and creative energy they have brought to the projects, it is testament to their professionalism and experience that in such a short time they incorporated the first project company and a formed professional board of administrators to manage it.
During the first quarter of 2009 the remaining two projects will be incorporated and moved to Quebec city were their administrators and management teams will take control.
It is through the dedication and professionalism of our business development partners that we look forward to continued success in 2009.
Nicole Gauthier, Viv Collins.
