2024-04-23 00:36:30
They have destroyed forests, lakes and cities, but also poisoned relations between Canada and the United States: fossil fuel emissions that acidify precipitation. The subject of bitter exchanges between the two allies, from 1980 to 1991, they fell at the end of a historic agreement, but today marks a return. Louis-Gilles Francoeur, journalist, talks regarding a struggle that nevertheless set the course for ecological protection.
“It ate away at the stone of the monuments, the brick, the cement… Everything was affected. […] The reproduction [animale], in some cases became impossible. »
— A quote from Louis-Gilles Francoeur, journalist
The phenomenon of acid rain was discovered by accident in 1963, but it was not until media interest in the early 1980s that the response was organized in North America.
According to Louis-Gilles Francoeur, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau is using this case as an “instrument to build the Canadian nation” by criticizing US inaction.
“Trudeau knocked, knocked, knocked… […] Suddenly there was something that brought everyone together: Quebec, Saskatchewan, the Maritimes, British Columbia… It had become something [cri] gathering point. »
— A quote from Louis-Gilles Francoeur, journalist
Brian Mulroney’s more cordial approach paved the way for the 1991 agreement, and acid emissions fell rapidly.
According to Louis-Gilles Francoeur, the issue should once more become a priority, since the exploitation of the western tar sands is once more acidifying a large part of the Canadian territory.
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