Quebec spending $88.3M to create new neighbourhood for impacted residents, while smelter owner Glencore will buy contaminated properties and lands
ROUYN-NORANDA, Que. — An announcement this week that some 200 families would be relocated from a Rouyn-Noranda neighbourhood contaminated by smelter pollution was met with anxiety and concern for those who will be moved out.
The Quebec government announced Thursday it would provide $88.3 million to support the City of Rouyn-Noranda to create a neighbourhood, while Glencore, the company that owns the smelter, will buy the properties and land from willing sellers in the contaminated area. Notwithstanding health risks related to arsenic, and despite the smell and noise from the factory, Bédard likes the neighbourhood where her grandchildren also reside.
"There are people who are worse off than me in the neighbourhood, poor people who are in tough. What will they do?" she asked. One of the reasons she and her partner haven't left is high rent elsewhere and a shortage of apartments. "To what point will I, as a citizen, be properly equipped once seated across from a multinational like Glencore to negotiate something?" Duclos asked. She is also concerned about the fate of her tenants.
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