Climate

The Court of Quebec has issued a $75,000 fine to an excavation company for doing grading work where threatened bank swallows were observed.

A new survey shows that most Quebec workers are suffering from a range of health problems such as dehydration and fatigue due to extreme heat at work.

The Quebec government is increasing fines tenfold for companies that violate certain provisions of the province’s Environmental Quality Act.

Quebecers are being invited to participate in cleanups along the riverbanks and in its watersheds, from Montreal to Baie-Comeau, from Aug. 6 to 21, as part of the 3rd edition of the Saint-Laurent Expedition.

SOPFEU says recent rains have helped, but they expect hot, sunny weather this week to fuel more forest fires in Quebec.

A new marine monitoring system that can detect undersea earthquakes, whale songs, ship noise and tidal activity could help improve environmental regulations, according to a recently-published study.

Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) has issued an air quality warning for the Montreal area due to smoke from Canadian wildfires.

Environmentalists are divided on whether a new funding deal reached between Quebec and the federal government is a meaningful first step to saving the province’s dwindling caribou herds or a “smokescreen” that does little to protect the threatened species.

Quebec plans to invest $44 million over five years to restore the Lac Saint-Pierre ecosystem.

Water and sediment samples collected near the Stablex plant in Blainville are contaminated with several toxic metals, according to the results of a sampling campaign initiated by Climat Québec and the Blainville Citizens’ Coalition.

The Quebec government has once again lowered its target for electric vehicle sales.

A group of environmental organizations and municipalities is worried that Quebec’s groundwater reserves are dwindling due to overconsumption and the effects of climate change.

Quebec’s environment ministry has ordered the owners of an illegally constructed private golf course and manmade lake to restore the wetlands and bodies of water that were destroyed.

The Quebec government and Hydro-Québec are jointly investing nearly $350 million to improve home energy efficiency, lower electricity bills and support the province’s energy transition.

A Quebec mining company was handed a $100-million fine for releasing harmful substances into fish-bearing waters between 2014 and 2022 at the Mont-Wright and Fire Lake mining complexes in the Côte-Nord region.