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After almost a decade and a half of owning and operating Depanneur et Gas Guimond, Gina Deer is going home.

Black smoke from Chateauguay’s industrial sector stretched on for kilometres early Saturday morning, following a fire that broke out in a building owned by a waste management company.

A community member has joined in denouncing the expected construction of an electric car battery plant before Quebec Superior Court - the first ever to do so since the Mohawk Could of Kahnawake (MCK)

A lawyer for the landowner named in the lawsuit launched by the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) over the fuel spill in Chateauguay last year said their client isn’t at fault, since there’s no proof diesel from the spill traversed into Kahnawake’s territory.

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) is now suing the property owner and company involved in the fuel spill that happened nearly one year ago in Chateauguay.

An investigation is now underway over the sale of hunted meat in Kahnawake, Quebec’s environmental ministry has confirmed. The investigation being carried out by wildlife officers was triggered following the publication of articles in Le Journal de Montréal that framed the sale of game in the territory as a “black market.” The reporting targeted community member Shane Stacey in particular, the hunter behind Wild Bush Cuts.

Quebec signed a historic agreement in Montreal with the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) today, one both parties hope will pave the way for a more constructive relationship moving forward.

An environmental group filed a judicial review at Quebec Superior Court this Wednesday in the hope of halting a city-led plan to build housing over wetlands in Chateauguay.

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.

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.