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The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) wasn’t consulted about the Northvolt electric car battery plant because it couldn’t demonstrate the project would harm the community’s ability to practice “ancestral activities” on the land located in the Monteregie.  That’s according to a sworn statement sent to Quebec Superior Court in late November by a regional director employed by Quebec’s environmental ministry (MELCCFP).   “To the knowledge of the MELCCFP, no ancestral Aboriginal activities linked to hunting, trapping, gathering, harvesting medicinal plants, or ceremonial practices have been practiced on the Northvolt project site, at least since the industrial use of the site, which began in 1878,” Stéphanos Bitzakidis wrote.

A group from the Kahnawake Environment Protection Office (KEPO) got the chance to visit the site of the future Northvolt facility earlier this month, marking its first-ever visit there since construction began in the winter.

The promoter behind a housing project proposed next door to Kahnawake was issued a warning earlier this fall by Quebec’s environmental ministry after carrying out unauthorized work in a wooded area in Chateauguay made up of wetlands.

The future isn’t looking too bright for the Swedish manufacturer Northvolt, a company the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK)

It was a Wednesday morning like any other. It was 6:50 a.m. and Phil Jacobs was behind the wheel of his dump truck, on his way to his job at the site of the future cultural centre, where he’s been contracted to haul away dirt and rock.

Representatives from Kahnawake were in Calgary last week for the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) third national climate gathering. “Catalyzing First Nations Climate and Conservation Leadership for Transformative Change” was the title of the conference, which featured a range of panels and workshops.

A group of environmentalists took to the streets in Chateauguay on Sunday to denounce a proposed housing project along Highway 30.

Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) grand chief Cody Diabo met with Indigenous affairs minister Ian Lafrenière for lunch at the Kahnawake Brewing Company this past Friday to talk about land that’s still owed to the community.  The province still owes 211 acres of land to Kahnawake to make up for the expansion of Highway 30 - a promise that’s stalled for several years now.

The ongoing construction of an electric car battery plant in the Monteregie has the potential to cause “irreversible harm” to wildlife and biodiversity in Kahnawake’s traditional territory should it continue to move ahead as planned, an environmental advisor for the Mohawk Council Kahnawake (MCK)

A plan by the city of Chateauguay to build housing along Highway 30 will result in the destruction of wetlands just next door to Kahnawake if it gets approved by the government of Quebec.