Quebec environment minister fingers two companies in dead fish investigation

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Benoit Charette said he issued a notice to Energie de la Lievre and Services Energie Brookfield in connection with the large number of dead fish that have been washing up in the Lievre and Outaouais

Quebec Environment Minister Benoit Charette fields questions at the closing news conference of the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment meeting in Halifax on June 27, 2019.Quebec’s environment minister said Thursday his department had identified two companies responsible for the large number of dead fish that have been washing up in the Lievre and Outaouais rivers in western Quebec in recent weeks.

He said in a statement the fish died as a result of dissolved gas supersaturation stemming from activities at the Masson hydro plant.The Environment Department said a supersaturation occurs when the amount of dissolved gases in water is higher than normal, which can harm aquatic life.

 

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Seriously. 50 points to whoever wrote that headline.

They must not have been donors ... otherwise pretty much every town on their coast plus the fed Libs are to blame.

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