“The goal is to identify and replace certain transmission line components that, over time, are more likely to cause service interruptions due to failure,” reads the statement issued by the State-owned enterprise.

These operations will involve the presence of a helicopter. It could be seen in the sky above Île Jésus for two to three days depending on weather conditions.

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Passing almost daily in the area, Tony Sutera Sardo is starting to find the situation particularly dangerous, especially since that’s an area used by many cars and pedestrians.

The Laval resident also tried to find out more about the situation, contacting the City of Laval by several means in recent weeks. After being redirected from a department to another, by phone, Tony Sutera Sardo took advantage of social networks to send messages to the City, on Facebook and Instagram.

“weeks passed, and as it’s very dark in the evening, it can end up being favourable to accidents,” he said. “I’m wondering what’s happening, because it’s too long. If the lack of lighting had only lasted a week, I would have thought it was perhaps just a lack of equipment, or something like that. It’s  a boulevard, not a secondary street. It’s not that a street wouldn’t be important, but on Saint-Martin, there are a lot of people passing by.”

When the City replied to the message, it asked Tony Sutera Sardo for his contact details. He obviously didn’t understand the link with the situation.

“I couldn’t understand why, because yes, I can give them my contact details, but just let me know how soon it will be case closed.”

By email, the City of Laval told the Courrier Laval News “it is working to rectify the situation as soon as possible, given that the defective main circuit breaker of the Saint-Martin Boulevard lighting circuit can’t be replaced without de-energization of the circuit by Hydro-Québec”. It adds that this is an important issue of prevention, since the safety of municipal teams could be “seriously compromised”.

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Therefore, the Crown corporation is ordered to pay a fine of $40,000 to the Receiver General of Canada.

“On March 23, 2022, while on routine patrol, Environment and Climate Change Canada Wildlife enforcement officers noticed heavy equipment and construction in the enforcement area of the Emergency order for the protection of the Western Chorus Frog of the Great Lakes/Saint-Laurent, and the Canadian Shield, in the municipality of La Prairie,” the Ministry notes in a press release.

“A contravention of the provisions of an emergency decree is an offence under the Species at Risk Act,” the press release also specifies. “The Act prohibits killing or harming a wildlife species, listed as an endangered species and damaging or destroying its habitat.”

The Emergency Decree, in effect since June 22, 2016, prohibits the installation, construction of an infrastructure, or any form of maintenance of an infrastructure in the application area. (N.P.)

translated by Alec Brideau

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