Abraham Jewett  |  November 9, 2021

Category: Canada

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Quebec Polluted Drinking Water Class Action Lawsuit Overview: 

  • Who: A class action lawsuit compensation order has been amended by Quebec’s Court of Appeal. 
  • Why: More citizens are now eligible to seek compensation over claims they were forced to drink polluted water for decades.
  • Where: Cannon Street residents in Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec, and residents of Shannon, Quebec are eligible for compensation.

Polluted water plagued Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec for decades and now more residents have become eligible to receive compensation from the result of a class action lawsuit.

Plaintiffs claimed that, for decades, they had been given drinking water contaminated with trichloroethylene (TCE), a carcinogenic degreasing agent, reports CBC

The federal government, Valcartier Real Estate Corporation, and General Dynamics were ordered to compensate residents of Shannon, Quebec last year as a result of the complaint. 

Residents who lived on Cannon Street in neighboring Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier were disqualified from making a damage claim, however, despite getting their water from Shannon, reports CBC. 

A panel of judges at Quebec’s Court of Appeal have now agreed to modify the order to allow Cannon Street residents to seek compensation. The ruling will affect around 300 households.

Polluted Water Exposed Unknowing Residents to Cancer Risks, Alleged Class Action 

The Shannon Citizens’ Committee sought the class action lawsuit back in 2003 after discovering that TCE had been getting into their water supply for decades, raising residents’ cancer risk, reports CBC. 

TCE had been found in a water supply system at the nearby Valcartier military base in 1997 and in wells located in Shannon in 2000. 

Residents who lived in the affected areas between 1995 and 2006 are eligible to receive $750 for each month they had to drink the tainted water, with a limit of up to $63,000, reports CBC. 

In August, federal officials reached an $8 billion class action settlement with First Nations groups who claimed the government had continuously deprived them of clean drinking water

Are you a resident of Shannon or Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec who was forced to drink water contaminated with TCE? Let us know in the comments! 


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3 thoughts onPolluted Water Class Action Open to More Quebec Residents Now Able To Claim up to $63K Each

  1. Roberta Fluter says:

    I lived in Valcatier in the PMQ’s on 120 rue Garceau with my former common law spouse and my daughter who was 15 months at the time. We lived there from early 2007 – 2009. In accordance with the timeline that is being given for this class action lawsuit we were at the tail end. What causes me concern is I recently learned of this while my daughter who is now 16 was having surgery to remove a malignant brain tumour and has recently completed radiation treatment for an Ependymoma. It causes me to question was this brain tumor caused from drinking the water while we were in in Quebec.

  2. Sylvette Paulin says:

    Good day.
    I am a retired veteran. I was soldier and a resident of Shannon at 209 Rue Garceau ( CFB Valcartier) from June 2010 until end November 2013. Therefore 3 and a half years. On a day to day basis in my household, my 2 children and myself, drank, cooked and washed in that polluted water. I wasn’t aware of this lawsuits until now, through a friend. I would like to join that class action, for having g consume the polluted waters.

    Thank you,
    Sylvette Paulin
    Cell: 1 (506)989-1011

  3. Wayne E Clifford says:

    southern star energy and pipe line poisend my well in kansas and paid a company to send me a notice that didnt explain anything and led to a dead end web page now im sick and haveing parkensons like symptoms

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