The city of St-Laurent is temporarily shutting down its ecocentre this week after a contractor “backed out” of working on the site.
As of Tuesday, anyone who wished to use the ecocentre was told to go to a site in one of six neighbouring municipalities. It’s unclear when the St-Laurent site will reopen.
Tuesday’s announcement comes after an investigation by the Montreal Gazette uncovered more problems last week in the awarding of supplier contracts to ecocentres in St-Laurent and Cartierville.
In January, Mélimax Transport Inc., which had supplied the St-Laurent site with industrial containers, was barred from doing business with public bodies for five years. The company had been sanctioned for illegal dumping.
An investigation by the Montreal Gazette found that the firm chosen to replace it was registered to Bianca Freeman, the wife of Mélimax owner Mario Landry. After those revelations, the insurance company that had provided an insurance bond to Mélimax decided not to award the St-Laurent contract to Freeman’s company, Conteneurs Rouville.
In a statement to the Montreal Gazette, the city of Montreal said it was the insurer’s decision to withdraw its bond that led Conteneurs Rouville to back out of its contract on the St-Laurent site.
Intact Financial Corporation, the insurer, is looking for a replacement at the ecocentre, according to city spokesperson Camille Bégin.
Intact would not tell the Montreal Gazette how it had initially selected Freeman’s company to replace Mélimax. The company also refused to answer whether it was aware of the familial link between the owners of Conteneurs Rouville and Mélimax.
Rouville had contracts with 11 Montreal municipalities before its ties to Mélimax became public. The contracts have been replaced in each except St-Laurent.
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