Environment

Still on the subject of water consumption, the Municipality of Fort-Coulonge has asked the public for their cooperation in preserving drinking water. As indicated in a Quebec government advertising campaign, the Municipality of Fort-Coulonge is asking the public not to water their lawns during the middle of the day to avoid evaporation and unnecessary waste. […]

Thursday evening’s (July 24) heavy rain and wind have downed trees and left thousands without power in the Pontiac region. The hardest hit areas are the southern municipalities of Shawville, Portage-du-Fort, Bristol and Municipality of Pontiac, with a total of around 5,000 addresses with no electricity, according to Hydro-Quebec’s website. The estimated times for power […]

This past spring, some erosion along river bank at the new halte by the Félix-Gabriel-Marchand Bridge in Mansfield-et-Pontefract gave the municipality a scare. A block of ice cut into part of the site’s terrain, damaging the trail that had been installed at the tourist stop. However, the municipality’s public works employees responded quickly, as Mansfield […]

MRC Pontiac announced earlier today that there will be a special sitting of MRC Pontiac council on Thursday July 10. The meeting will take place in the Elsie Gibbons Room at 6:30 p.m. The only item on the agenda is “Calls for tenders – recyclable materials”.  

Like spring, June proved to be a quiet month for Quebec’s forest fire fighting agency SOPFEU, with a third of the average number of fires for this time of year. Over the past month, the organization recorded 33 fires affecting 25.5 hectares of forest in the Intensive Protection Zone (IPZ), compared with a ten-year average […]

Following an announcement earlier this month from the provincial Ministry of Environment ordering a local waste management company to pay $125,000, a representative of Centre FilloGreen has responded to the situation. In a press release issued June 4, the ministry announced that on April 14 of this year, 9231-6082 Québec inc., known as Centre FilloGreen, was […]

Update: This story has been updated to include a link to Centre FilloGreen’s response.  A local waste management company was recently ordered to pay $125,000 by the Quebec Ministry of Environment for infractions dating back to 2018. In a press release issued Wednesday (June 4), the Ministry announced that on April 14 of this year, […]

Environment Canada has issued a special air quality statement for the Pontiac region, as smoke from wildfires in the western provinces is causing poor air quality and reduced visibility. “Smoke from wildfires in the Canadian Prairies will cause poor air quality and reduced visibility until Friday morning,” the statement reads. “People most likely to suffer […]

Every spring in the Fort-Coulonge/Mansfield area, treatments against biting insects are carried out to reduce the number of these unwanted pests in the region. In recent weeks, helicopters could be heard operating in the area, however, the amount of bugs biting this year has prompted complaints from the public. CHIP 101.9 spoke with Richard Vadeboncoeur, […]

On Tuesday (May 27), representatives of Hydro-Québec held an open house at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Fort-Coulonge regarding some big upgrades that they have planned for Pontiac’s electrical grid. The crown corporation plans to construct a new substation in the Fort-Coulonge/Mansfield region, as well as a set of high voltage transmission wires for […]