This is the start of appeals Wednesday in the case filed by the City of Drummondville against the Quebec government in the Waste Management landfill case.
The City wants to overthrow the Special Intervention Zone (ZIS) created by the Minister of the Environment and the Fight against Climate Change, Benoît Charette, last year. This allows the American multinational to develop and continue operating its site in the Saint-Nicéphore sector for another 10 years.
The decision remains unpopular for many citizens, who go to the courthouse. The government has given itself such power above all City power and social acceptancelamented Berthe Tessier, who was one of these Drummondvillois.
According to Quebec, this ZIS represented the only option to preserve public health from the consequences of a closure.
The city’s attorney, Me Louis Béland, however, argued in his argument that the Ministry of the Environment and the Fight against Climate Change have done nothing to find alternative solutions over the years. In his view, the Quebec Government had made an unreasonable decision and used its power in bad faith based on hypothetical considerations in its creation. ZIS. This is also the opinion of many residents.
They did nothing for years to think of long-term solutions, and all of a sudden they ordered an emergency for us.supports Évelyne Millien, one of them.
A law not of one year, three years, five years, but ten years, based on a supposed health crisisadded Bérard Fréchette, another opponent.
Lawyers for the Government of Quebec are expected to begin their appeals Thursday at the Drummondville courthouse. The trial will end on Friday. A decision may fall within a few weeks.
There is information from Jean-François Dumas
Source: Radio-Canada
