Northvolt should turn Quebec into a major EV player. Why are people so unhappy?

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Quebec’s Premier lauded the company’s plans as the ‘greenest electric battery factory in the world’, but the $7-billion project has angered many in the province

Quebec Premier Francois Legault attends an announcement that Northvolt Batteries North America will build a new electric vehicle battery manufacturing plant near Montreal, on Sept. 28, 2023.In late September, Quebec Premier François Legault announced his government had attracted the largest private manufacturing investment in the province’s history, which he said would transform Quebec into a global player in the electric vehicle supply chain.

The reaction was swift. An environmental group sued; Quebecers complained that the price tag was too high at a time when Legault was crying poverty during salary negotiations with teachers and nurses; and vandals sabotaged the work site east of Montreal by driving metal bars into trees, hoping to damage clear-cutting machinery. Then, last week, bottles filled with flammable liquid attached to detonators were found under equipment at the site.

Canada’s committing tens of billions of dollars to the EV industry. Here’s a list of the planned projects so far For Lander, the factory, which is supposed to begin manufacturing electric battery cells and producing cathode active material by 2026, is controversial because it reflects a lack of consistency with the Legault government’s nationalist approach to governing.

 

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