Hydro Line 2: Removed

The removal of Hydro Line 2 is officially complete and signed off by the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake. Lindsay Leborgne was in charge of the file at the MCK:

“They replanted trees, they planted grass, they removed soil around each tower, because of the contamination from the zinc coating on the towers over the years, it flaked off after 60 years being there, so, soil had to be removed, it was taken out of the territory. Fresh soil was brought back in. We had KEPO, our own environmental office, went checking the work and they were satisfiesd that everything was done according to the agreement that we struck with Hydro many years ago, now.”

Leborgne says that the process has taken over time:

“It’s been about 5 years, they removed every tower and base that they could except the 4 that were left at Irving Goodleaf’s property and that was negotiated. He didn’t want them removed. They negotiated with him to leave them there and the bases of the towers that were on the north wall of the Seaway, those were the large towers that were probably upwards of 300 ft high so the towers were extremely large and they were right on the riverside and there was a worry by Hydro  that if they started digging down, because those bases were quite big, that you could have a breach in the wall of the seaway through the river.”