Plan St-Laurent - Pour un développement durable

3 June 1988 will remain a memorable date in the annals of the St. Lawrence River. On this day, the Environment Ministers of ... (continued)

In 3 June 1988, at the same time as the cooperation agreement was signed, which would later result in the launch of the first Canada-Quebec Agreement on the St. Lawrence, the Environment Canada Minister, Tom McMillan, announced ... (continued)

The marsouin, as it was called by the people of Isle-aux-Coudres in the past, and now known as the Beluga ... (continued)

Ambitious and audacious. That’s what the St. Lawrence Action Plan (SLAP) was called as soon as it was launched ... (continued)

This group could be called “the clean effluent squad". These 30-odd specialists in ... (continued)

During the creation of the St. Lawrence Action Plan (SLAP) by the governments of Canada and Quebec in 1989, seven of the most active environmental groups in Quebec ... (continued)

Four million dollars! This is the amount that the Quebec Court fined Tioxide Canada on ... (continued)

The first five-year Canada-Quebec Agreement on the St. Lawrence recently ended in April 1993, when the federal Environment Minister, Jean Charest ... (continued)

The second round! Following a successful initial action program from 1989 to 1993, the federal and Quebec governments signed a new five-year agreement for the protection and promotion of the St. Lawrence ... (continued)

One of the major innovations of Phase II of the St. Lawrence Plan (1993-1998, then called St. Lawrence Vision 2000) is the partners’ desire to involve the public in protecting and promoting the river ... (continued)

On June 6, 1996, federal and Quebec Environment Ministers Sergio Marchi and David Cliche announced the establishment of the St. Lawrence Advisory Committee.  Made up of about 30 members from ... (continued)

The vast majority of the people who live along the St. Lawrence drink tap water, even when it comes from the river, and more than half enjoy at least one activity connected with the St. Lawrence. These are some of the findings ... (continued)

On June 6, 1996, federal Environment Minister Sergio Marchi released an important three-volume document entitled State of the Environment Report on the St. Lawrence River. Based on a compilation of thousands of scientific data ... (continued)

1996.07.04
Belugas target of a recovery plan

As long demanded by environmentalists, the St. Lawrence beluga population will in future be officially protected in its habitat. The announcement was made jointly on July ... (continued)

After 10 years of intensive work in two successive phases, the federal-provincial action program for the St. Lawrence River was well established. It was therefore quite logical for federal and Quebec Environment Ministers Christine Stewart and Paul Bégin to ... (continued)

After 10 long years of planning, it was with great pride that federal and Quebec Environment Ministers Sheila Copps and Paul Bégin ... (continued)

To combat pollution in the St. Lawrence, the first step is to establish the type (quality and quantity) of pollutants involved. With that in mind, on October 15, 1998, the St. Lawrence Centre released a study describing ... (continued)

The local involvement of community groups constitutes a vital link in the rehabilitation of the St. Lawrence ... (continued)

A document accompanying the new National Water Policy adopted by the Government of Quebec in November 2002 noted that water management in Quebec is ... (continued)

In the wake of the National Water Policy adopted by the Government of Quebec two years earlier, some 150 experts and representatives of governments, industries and communities came together in the spring of 2004 at Longueuil, to consider the possible ... (continued)

Although the St. Lawrence is in a better condition than it was during the second half of the 20th century, it is still under enormous pressures and remains vulnerable. This conclusion emerges from ... (continued)

Navigation on the St. Lawrence is an environmentally beneficial means of transportation, but it is not without impact on the ecosystem. In order to minimize this impact, the St. Lawrence Plan launched ... (continued)

The St. Lawrence Plan for a Sustainable Development: this is the new name under which the Canada-Quebec Agreement on the St. Lawrence was renewed for Phase IV on June 1, 2006, when the two governments committed more than $114 million to ... (continued)