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A Quebec-based company is hoping to become a leader in direct air capture, where carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere. But questions remain about whether the technology is the best use of limited public funds and resources as the world seeks to reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions.

Quebec will invest $4.48 million into the St. Lawrence Action Fund to restore and enhance biodiversity in marine protected areas.

Northvolt, the electric battery making company, has been issued a notice of non-compliance by the Quebec Environment Department.

Believing that the arrival of Northvolt is "basically good news," but that landing the factory project was "laborious," the Quebec Liberals are urging the Legault government to launch a generic environmental assessment (BAPE) on the battery sector.

Weeks after a fuel spill, Kahnawake officials still don't know who is responsible or how big it actually was. They only found out after residents complained about water in a ditch.

Premier Francois Legault displayed a banana, an orange and an apple on Wednesday to justify a more lenient scientific analysis of the Northvolt battery plant project in Monteregie.

Mulling a run for the Quebec Liberal leadership, the former Montreal mayor had a friendly encounter with PQ Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon but says hes concerned about another sovereignty referendum.

A group had argued it was “unreasonable” for Quebec to have authorized the battery plant because it didn’t have enough environmental impact information.

Justice David R. Collier rejected the petition in a 13-page decision issued Friday

Quebec Environmental Law Centre told court approvals to destroy wetlands for Swedish battery-maker’s factory site are illegal, unreasonable