Eventabout November 2018Document

US EPA (LCP Chemicals Superfund site, Linden NJ): Stablex is the only facility known to EPA that could take its visibly mercury-contaminated soil

Undated EPA Region II fact sheet on the contingency remedy (file dated Nov 2018; cites events to Sept 2016): excavating the ~25,000 cubic yards of principal threat waste would face 'significant implementation issues, since there is only one facility known to EPA that could possibly take this amount of visibly contaminated soil: Stablex in Canada'. Obstacles listed: the Mercury Export Ban Act, possible changes to Canadian law, Stablex's capacity, pooled mercury that Stablex cannot accept, and Canada's 2 mg/kg PCB import limit against a 7 mg/kg site average.

Date

about November 2018 (known to the nearest estimate)

Kind

Other

Where

United States

Evidence

Document: An official document: a bill, a filing, an agreement text. How evidence is weighed

Sources

• US EPA, “US EPA Region II fact sheet: LCP Chemicals Superfund site” (external site). source record

Projects

• Stablex Cell 6 hazardous-waste landfill (Blainville)

Claims that rest on this event

• ContextMechanism

  Quebec overrode opposition to protect existing industry (Bill 93 for the Stablex waste site, passed under closure; Bill 11 with relief for the Horne smelter) but avoided a fight over new projects: its fast-track Bill 5 lapsed. The only party that pledged in writing to bring back a Bill 5-style law, the outgoing CAQ, won no seats in the 5 October 2026 election, which left the Parti Québécois short of a majority with 59 of 127 seats (preliminary results).

  A US EPA fact sheet names Stablex as the only facility it knew of that could take a New Jersey Superfund site's mercury-contaminated soil: the site Quebec protected also serves US cleanups.