The owner of a western Quebec copper smelter says it will adhere to the government s new requirements and reduce arsenic emissions to five times the provincial norm by 2027.
MONTREAL - Arsenic emissions at a western Quebec copper smelter will be reduced to five times the provincial norm by 2017 at a cost of around $500 million, the plant’s owner said Thursday.
MONTREAL - A copper smelter in northwest Quebec will be permitted to release 15 nanograms of arsenic per cubic metre of air five times the provincial norm Quebec's environment minister said Monday.