Horne smelter: Quebec will spend $88M to help move nearly 200 families
CTV
The Quebec government and the City of Rouyn-Noranda promise to accompany citizens who will be relocated because of arsenic emissions from the Horne smelter in 'each step' and that the operation will be done gradually. Quebec will pay $88.3 million to support the city in relocating nearly 200 families living in the Notre-Dame sector.
The Quebec government and the City of Rouyn-Noranda promise to accompany citizens who will be relocated because of arsenic emissions from the Horne smelter in "each step" and that the operation will be done gradually.
Quebec will pay $88.3 million to support the city in relocating nearly 200 families living in the Notre-Dame sector.
The company Glencore, which owns the smelter, will acquire, at its own expense and by mutual agreement, the buildings and land in the area.
The multinational will determine the price of the buildings, but the owners will be accompanied and advised by a committee composed of members of the Quebec government and the City of Rouyn-Noranda.
Glencore will demolish 82 buildings, decontaminate the soil in the area and then green the area so that it becomes a buffer zone.
Citizens "will be able to live in their homes until their new homes are ready," said Municipal Affairs Minister Andrée Laforest at a news conference.
In the national assembly on Thursday morning, Minister for the Economy Christopher Skeete indicated that "no one will be forced to leave their home if it is not their choice."
