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On October 19, 2020, Breakwater Resources Limited, which operates the Langlois Mine, pleaded guilty in the Val d’Or courthouse to one count of violating the Fisheries Act. The company was fined $350,000, which will be directed to the Government of Canada’s Environmental Damages Fund.

On February 28, 2018, a 500-litre spill of flocculent from the Langlois mining site in Lebel sur Quévillon resulted in a discharge of acutely lethal effluent into the Wedding River. The discharge of acutely lethal effluent into water frequented by fish is a violation of subsection 36(3) of the Fisheries Act.

As a result of this conviction, the company’s name will be added to the Environmental Offenders Registry.

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