Following a meeting with Transport Canada, the Union of Forest Producers of South Quebec (SPFSQ), affiliated with UPA-Estrie, regrets that the federal government is not paying more attention to the social acceptability of this project.
The President of SPFSQ, André Roy, also represents about twenty landowners who would be affected by the bypass. In particular, he wondered how important it was to develop such a road. The federal government has announced that from now on the triage will be carried out in the Lac-Mégantic industrial park, eliminating any possibility of a tragedy like that of 2013
he assures.
” The reason we were given was that the government of Canada and the government of Quebec had committed to building a bypass. »
It doesn’t satisfy us in the sense that we’re going to shell out hundreds of millions of dollars for a bypass that is no longer necessary because the safety of the population is no longer at stake.
says Andre Roy.
Ottawa has confirmed that expropriations for the construction of the railroad bypass are underway.
The Ministry of Transport did not say how many owners will be expropriated for the construction of the future bypass. 43 owners from Nantes, Lac-Mégantic and Frontenac were initially involved in the acquisition process.
The municipality of Frontenac will hold a referendum on the subject on Sunday.
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