Montreal's construction boom — new hospitals, condos, bridges and roads — means thousands of truckloads of contaminated soil, twisted rebar and concrete need to go somewhere. To confirm her suspicions, Girard hired private detectives to tail debris-laden trucks from construction sites in downtown Montreal to illegal dumping grounds, she said. The contractors confronted by Radio-Canada all proclaimed their innocence — insisting they hadn't dumped contaminated soil and it couldn't have come from them. Police probe comes up emptyThe provincial police also investigated complaints about the illegal dumping of contaminated soil. Radio-Canada found construction debris at those sites.

Source: CBC News March 15, 2019 09:56 UTC