2023-05-08 04:00:00
The work to salvage volumes of wood overturned by the December 23 storm that has just begun in sectors of Pointe-Lebel is causing discontent. Citizens are crying out for clear-cutting and preparing an outcry to prevent a popular wooded area from being razed.
At their April meeting, the mayors of the MRC de Manicouagan awarded a one-year contract to the company SG des Bergeronnes for the sale of wood to be salvaged from public lands.
However, recovery operations behind the municipal building at 830 Granier Street startled citizens. “If you would see the looting”, launched André Foster, to the newspaper The Manic.
At the beginning of last week, the resident of the Pointe-Paradis sector said he learned that the wooded area in front of his residence and those of his neighbors might experience the same fate within a month, a month and a half. “We knew that they were cutting everything clear, there is perhaps the Doggie Trail that they will keep around for a bit. »
Beyond the use made of it by hiking, snowshoeing and cross-country skiing enthusiasts, the forest floor in question has a protective effect on rue Granier once morest squalls of snow in winter. “We may be picking up with snow like at the other end”, underlines André Foster, referring to the end of Pointe-Paradis which has already been isolated for almost two days due to a wall. of snow.
Mr. Foster and his neighbors also anticipate being inconvenienced once more with dust from the Premier Tech peat bog, as they were thirty years ago before the trees grew.
“We, what we want is for them to pick up what has fallen and the rest, to leave it there. The gentleman from the MRC, I spoke to him yesterday (May 2), told me but more trees will fall. I said yes, but 80% will stay there the same. He told me that we’re going to have beetles. As I told him, yes, a long-horned beetle is natural, it’s not pollution, ”continues the citizen.
According to him, all the people he informs regarding the upcoming salvage work “over 500 to 600 meters” between rue Granier and the peat bog are angry and consider that the project makes no sense.
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André Foster and his neighbors intend to attend the next regular meeting of the Pointe-Lebel municipal council, on May 15. Their motto: Save our woodland.
“This wood is for everyone,” insists the citizen. Listening only to his determination to be heard, he even made a sign with the inscription Save our woodlandwhich he installed in front of his home.
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