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Contractors will keep revenue from $175M St-Laurent composting plant
The price of Montreal’s future composting centre in St-Laurent borough has grown by another third in the few months since the city revealed in November that the cost of the facility had doubled. As...
View ArticleCity hall opposition calls for probe of composting plants
The opposition at city hall is calling on the city auditor general to probe Montreal’s $589-million project to build organic waste treatment centres around the island. The Gazette reported on Tuesday...
View ArticleMore sophisticated way exists to decide city's waste treatment options
The last time city officials contemplated the type of organic waste treatment centres that are needed on Montreal Island and the places to put them was a decade ago. And their thought process went like...
View ArticleIsland suburbs ask Plante administration to suspend $175-million composting...
The mayors of the island suburbs called on Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante on Monday to suspend the awarding of a $175-million contract to build and operate a composting plant in St-Laurent borough and...
View ArticleMontreal set to embark on waste-treatment plan critics say is outdated
In the decade that it has taken Montreal to go from planning its first composting centre for organic waste to this coming week awarding a $175-million contract to build and run it, the city of Edmonton...
View ArticleMontreal should consider biomethanation instead of composting plant: experts
While the Montreal agglomeration council is set to approve a $175-million contract on Thursday to build a 50,000 tonne-a-year capacity composting centre in St-Laurent, experts say it should at least...
View Article'Revolution' of 'tenderness': Irishman of the Year, Father John Walsh
The Governor General of Canada beat the Irish to it by a few weeks, but Father John Emmett Walsh was honoured on Saturday by his community by birth, which named him Irishman of the Year for his decades...
View ArticleMontreal’s composting plan not sustainable, lacks serious analysis: scientist
Mayor Valérie Plante’s decision to forge ahead with a $175-million composting centre in St-Laurent borough will allow her administration to say it’s achieving a long-standing promise, but it...
View ArticleMontreal scrambling to continue operations at two ecocentres after contractor...
The city of Montreal is scrambling to find a new contractor to provide transportation of containers filled with waste from two west-end ecocentres and several boroughs and suburbs as well as recuperate...
View ArticleOpposition to table motion calling for city auditor general to probe...
The opposition at Montreal city hall plans to table a motion next week to have city council mandate the auditor general to probe a $175-million composting plant contract and to examine the city’s...
View ArticleMontreal 'extremely uncomfortable' with company given waste contracts
The city of Montreal has handed some of its contracts to haul waste to a company that belongs to the wife of the entrepreneur who was stripped of the contracts because the province has barred his firms...
View ArticleConstruction on Pie IX express bus lanes begins Monday
Major construction work to create an express bus corridor on Pie IX Blvd. begins Monday and is not scheduled to end before 2022. The City of Montreal expects that once completed, the protected bus...
View ArticleInsurer won't say how it chose Montreal firm of ousted contractor's wife
The insurance company that provided a performance bond to debarred contractor Mélimax refuses to say how it selected a company belonging to the wife of the ousted waste container entrepreneur to finish...
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Montreal woman who defrauded senior and breached house arrest jailed for six...
A judge has ordered Anita Obodzinski, who pleaded guilty to defrauding an elderly woman and then breached her house arrest, to serve the next six months in prison rather than continue to serve out her...
View ArticleMontreal adding $4.2 million onto composting centre bill for 'quality control'
A month after awarding a $175-million contract to build a composting centre in St-Laurent borough amid protests by the opposition and island suburbs, the administration of Mayor Valérie Plante is...
View ArticleContract controversy could have been avoided, Montreal opposition says
The city of Montreal could have prevented the spouse of a barred contractor from taking over some of her husband’s municipal contracts this month had the administration followed through on a motion...
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No trace of $76K contract in Montreal's city records
The city of Montreal awarded a contract to a waste transportation company last fall without leaving any trace of its existence in its records. And in so doing, it appears to have violated a provincial...
View ArticleMontreal discovers 'flaw' in how its contracts are disclosed
The city of Montreal says a “flaw” in the way its bureaucrats have been identifying municipal contracts in an internal database when they’re awarded behind closed doors is the reason there’s no trace...
View ArticleInsurer avoiding debarred contractor's wife for remaining Montreal waste...
The insurance company that provided a performance bond to debarred contractor Mélimax has decided not to give the firm’s remaining municipal contracts with the city of Montreal to the debarred...
View ArticleMore waste woes in Montreal: Second ecocentre is refusing items
The city is blaming a shortage of truck drivers for an interruption of service at the LaSalle ecocentre. Read More
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