Allison Hanes: Could recognizing rights for nature help save it?
What's left of Montreal's historic St. Pierre River is little more than a polluted puddle these days — but even that is in imminent peril.
Author of the article: Allison Hanes • Montreal Gazette
Publishing date: Apr 26, 2021 • 3 hours ago • 4 minute read •
"One of the rights we're asking for is the right to exist — that's the very first one — and then the right to flow and to flow without pollution," says Louise Legault on behalf of what's still visible of the St. Pierre River, seen behind her on the grounds of the Meadowbrook Golf Course. Photo by Allen McInnis /Montreal Gazette