Environmental Groups, MCK: Call For Compliance

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake joined other environmental groups in Montreal yesterday to call for compliance with regulations, including the creation of a public register of environmental information. Équiterre, the David Suzuki Foundation, and Greenpeace were among the groups who are concerned about the government’s: “tendency to weaken environmental regulations.”  They reiterated their call for the Northvolt battery plant project to be subject to the environmental assessment process. Ross Montour representing the MCK:

“One of the things is the takeaway is that, okay, everybody is talking about green energy, but I think there are legitimate questions that need to be raised about it, as a global re-orientation for the planet that needs to take into account a lot of other things than just this idea that ‘oh, we’re going to have electric cars.’ Globally, and 1 of the things I stressed was, it’s not just a battery recycling plant, it’s the whole cycle of production from the mining all the way to the recycling that we need to consider,  and that we need to look at the impact on the environment.”

Montour says that the next step is to bring this forward to the AFNQL, which will be coming-up in the next virtual meeting.