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A Quebec mining company was handed a $100-million fine for releasing harmful substances into fish-bearing waters between 2014 and 2022 at the Mont-Wright and Fire Lake mining complexes in the C\u00f4te-Nord region.<\/p>\n
The Public Prosecution Service of Canada says the sanction on\u00a0ArcelorMittal\u00a0Mining Canada is the harshest ever imposed under the Fisheries Act.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The company pleaded guilty to 100 counts under the Act and will pay a $1-million fine for each count, most of which will go toward the federal Environmental Damages Fund, after reaching a settlement.<\/p>\n
ArcelorMittal\u00a0will have to pay an additional $249,903.61 to Environment and Climate Change Canada to cover investigation costs.<\/p>\n
The Director of Public Prosecutions, George Dolhai, says polluters must be held accountable for offences resulting from their negligence.<\/p>\n
In a news release,\u00a0ArcelorMittal\u00a0says the mines discharged nickel and zinc into fish-bearing waters, and that most infractions occurred before 2019.<\/p>\n
It adds that since then it has invested in infrastructure to improve water issues on-site including a water treatment facility.<\/p>\n
“The settlement reached and announced today will mark the end of this chapter,” said Mapi Mobwano, president and chief executive officer of\u00a0ArcelorMittal\u00a0Mining Canada, in a statement. “We are committed to improving the environmental performance of our operations.”<\/p>\n
Mobwano added he was confident the company had taken steps to avoid similar situations in the future.<\/p>\n
“The communities around our operations are extremely important to us and we will continue to ensure that we are taking the right decisions to protect the environment,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-672842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}