POINTE-CLAIRE– Residents demonstrated outside Pointe-Claire city council Tuesday night and then grilled its mayor about PCBs.
Mayor Morris Trudeau has repeatedly said that residents don’t face any health risks from PCB contamination in the soil of the old Reliance Power Equipment site.
But residents are challenging that assertion, telling the mayor that the fact testing still needs to be done — but can’t proceed — would suggest the verdict is still out on safety.
WATCH: Pointe-Claire PCB protest
The municipal public health department indicated last month the site on 86 Hymus Boulevard poses no risk. But tests can’t proceed there because the company that bought it, Juste Investir, is tied up in a court battle over its decontamination plans with the provincial government.
READ MORE: Environment ministry calls for PCB decontamination plan from Pointe-Claire companies
In 2013, officials discovered a PCB spill on the site, which was a power equipment vendor. PCBs used to be used as coolants but we’re banned in the late seventies.
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