The $88-million, five-year plan comes as the government renewed permission for the Horne copper smelter to pollute at rates multiple times the limits set elsewhere
At the same time it officially renewed the facility’s permission to pollute at rates multiple times the limits set elsewhere.
François Deschênes, 54, is among the homeowners who will be displaced. He has lived on 7th Avenue, “four houses from the smelter,” as he put it, for the past 22 years. Many feel the costs are not borne enough by the smelter’s owner. Glencore, a Switzerland-based mining and industrial giant, made record profit and generated US$256-billion of revenue in 2022, the company“I don’t think the government should pay; I don’t think taxpayers should pay,” Mr. Deschênes said of the $88-million relocation plan.
Ms. Desgagnés also said the government showed contempt for residents by not meeting with them or even allowing them to hear about the plan in person. Environment Minister Benoit Charette and Municipal Affairs Minister Andrée Laforest were in Rouyn-Noranda on Thursday to make the announcement.
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