Quebec Superior Court rejects Blainville's injunction request against Stablex expansion

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· Posted: Apr 02, 2025 6:58 PM EDT | Last Updated: 24 minutes ago

Quebec Superior Court has rejected the City of Blainville's petition for an injunction to suspend the expropriation of protected onshore for the enlargement of a hazardous waste landfill tract owned by Stablex, an American company.

The determination was released Wednesday, astir a week aft the provincial authorities pushed done a measure that volition let the owners of the landfill to grow the installation for an further 40 years of storage.

According to Superior Court documents, the injunction petition was rejected, successful part, due to the fact that of the pressing nationalist request for Stablex's services and to hole the site. 

The enlargement enactment connected the disputed onshore is expected to statesman shortly, arsenic the clearing indispensable beryllium completed earlier April 15, the day caller national regulations connected migratory birds travel into effect.

The ruling says granting a enactment oregon injunction would origin "real and important harm to the nationalist interest," and though sympathetic to Blainville's arguments, the metropolis is fundamentally questioning whether lawmakers made the due decision. This doesn't supply capable crushed for the tribunal to hold oregon intermission the decision, the ruling says. 

Premier François Legault convened a special assembly past Thursday to implicit the reappraisal process for Bill 93. The league continued overnight, and the measure was yet adopted by a ballot of 61 to 31 connected Friday.

The 3 absorption parties rejected the bill, which besides grants bonzer powers to the authorities and does not let "any judicial reappraisal provided for successful the Code of Civil Procedure" but connected a question of jurisdiction.

Stablex and the Coaltion Avenir Québec (CAQ) authorities person been locked successful a nationalist quality with the City of Blainville astir expanding the facility that treats and buries toxic waste, contaminated ungraded and different hazardous materials northbound of Montreal.

The tract is the lone 1 of its benignant successful Quebec, and Stablex says if it doesn't commencement enactment connected the enlargement task adjacent month, it whitethorn person to suspend operations.

The contentious authorities passed by the Quebec authorities expropriates onshore from Blainville to alteration Stablex to grow its hazardous discarded disposal operations.

Shortly after the province's decision, the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal (CMM) and the City of Blainville announced they were asking the Superior Court to suspend the instrumentality portion its legality is validated.