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No decisions were made at a special closed community meeting called by the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) to discuss the Terrapure recycling facility that sits on the boundary of Kahnawake and has recently come under fire for alleged environmental infractions.

Following reimbursements from Canada and Quebec last year for costs incurred in the cleanup of a 2024 fuel spill believed to have originated in Chateauguay, the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) has officially withdrawn a lawsuit against the city.

The city of Ste. Catherine, which is facing dozens of charges under the Fisheries Act for allegedly allowing Terrapure to dump toxic water into the Seaway, is finally engaging with Kahnawake after a series of face-palm-inducing communications failures.

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) found itself forced to continue to glean information on the Terrapure file by way of media reports and press releases this week, paving the way for a translation error that led to frustration.

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) was not alerted after the federal government laid charges against recycling company Terrapure and the city of Ste. Catherine, despite the alleged environmental infractions taking place within the bounds of the Seigneury of Sault St. Louis land grievance.

Updates were aplenty at this week’s community meeting, with new information about upcoming additions to Client Based Services, external government relations, and potential tolls among the news shared.

As his young family continues to grow, Benjamin Green-Stacey has decided that it is time for him to turn his attention to them, leaving his role as director of the Kahnawake Environment Protection Office (KEPO) on June 27.

The first community meeting of the year is coming up on Wednesday. It’ll be hosted at the Golden Age Club and is expected to start at 6 p.m.  Top of the agenda will be a discussion about the memorandum of understanding signed last month between Quebec and the Mohawk Council 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.