Report - Agence canadienne d'évaluation environnementale

Territorial context of the project
Census, namely 2.3 persons, the population can be evaluated to be about 150 people
living less than one kilometre from the LNG terminal site and about 750 people less
than 2.5 km away.
Aboriginal land claims
The proponent indicated in his impact statement that, based on information obtained
from the Malécites de Viger First Nation (MVFN), the project is located on the
ancestral land of this first nation. In a letter sent to the proponent, the MVFN indicated
that is has “discussions with the Crown in right of Canada based on this title and
these rights” (PR3.3.1, p. 2.94; PR6, p. 95).
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada informed the Panel that the sector targeted by the
project, namely to the east of the Pointe de Lévis, at the limit of the municipality of
Beaumont, is located within the land claimed by the MVFN (DQ16.2). Quebec’s
Secrétariat des affaires autochtones also indicated to the Panel that it had received a
detailed description of the territorial limits of that claim (DB113.1).
No representation was made however by the Aboriginal people during the Panel’s
hearings and no issue was raised regarding this point by hearing participants.
Pipeline environment
The gas pipeline linking the projected LNG terminal to the existing natural gas
network would be 42 km long. As shown in Figure 1, it would reach across the three
boroughs belonging to the City of Lévis, namely Desjardins, Les Chutes-de-la-
Chaudière-Est and Les Chutes-de-la-Chaudière-Ouest. The environment it would
cross is shown in Figure 5.
According to the impact statement, the first section of the route, in the Desjardins
borough, would pass through agricultural land along rights-of-way for the expressway,
power lines, and railways, to the rivière Etchemin. Between the LNG terminal and that
river, there are eleven crossings of minor waterways, nine highway crossings,
including the Jean-Lesage expressway, and three railway crossings.
In the Chutes-de-la-Chaudière-Est borough, once the rivière Etchemin is crossed, the
gas pipeline route continues in a wooded area to highway 275. It would go around a
peat bog of approximately 3 km 2 , and then near two wetlands of about 40 ha. Near
the limit of the MRC de La Nouvelle-Beauce, the route would turn before crossing
highway 73, highway 175, and the rivière Chaudière. In addition, this section of the
route would cross three roads, two railways, and nine minor waterways.
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