Kanesatake residents accused of illegal dumping say they’ve done nothing wrong

Some residents of a Mohawk assemblage westbound of Montreal who are accused by the Quebec authorities of illegal dumping accidental they’ve done thing wrong.

Quebec authorities lawyers are successful Superior Court connected Monday seeking a impermanent injunction to halt the dumping of contaminated ungraded and different discarded connected 17 waterfront properties on the shores of the Lake of Two Mountains successful Kanesatake.

They person named 17 defendants, mostly Kanesatake residents, and 2 excavation companies that did enactment connected the properties wherever the dumping allegedly occurred.

But lawyers for 2 of the defendants accidental it isn’t just for them to beryllium lumped successful with everyone else, since nary contaminated ungraded was recovered connected their land.

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One of them is accused of filling successful ungraded on the shoreline connected her property, portion the different is accused of cutting trees on the shore.

The tribunal lawsuit follows months of media sum and nationalist unit from assemblage members, who accidental amerciable dumping has been a occupation successful Kanesatake for years.