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Piles of garbage bags. A mound of red bricks. The remnants of a lit firecracker. Three mismatched chairs around what was once a fire. Along Seaway Road, sights like these aren’t anything out of the ordinary.

The Mohawk Council chiefs on the environment file have an updated mandate following this week’s Council meeting. It now includes a new commitment to do more to collaborate with community-led groups, said Ross Montour, the lead on the file.

A regional assessment study of the St. Lawrence River has now been authorized, after a request for one was put in by the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK)

A maintenance operation at Kahnawake’s sewage treatment plant this week saw more sewage than expected discharged into the St. Lawrence River – though the Kahnawake Environment Protection Office (KEPO)

A plan is underway to reinstate conservation officers on the territory after they were phased out nearly a decade ago.

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.

Hidden cameras have been set up along Seaway Road in the hope of deterring illegal dumping. Council chief Jeremiah Johnson said visible ones will also soon be put up on the telephone poles at the entrance of the road too.

Management at the Kanawaki Golf Club and Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) have yet to decide what kind of work will be carried out to remove old asbestos pipes currently underground at the golf course.

Workers at the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) say they have no other option than to undertake a sewage operation that could potentially require the dumping of up to 200 cubic metres of untreated sewage into the St. Lawrence River.

Consultations over how to best make use of over 500 acres of land straddling Highway 30 officially kicked off at a “Lands Summit” hosted this week at the Knights of Columbus.