{"id":8068,"date":"2010-10-18T07:30:27","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T12:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=8068"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:44:53","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:44:53","slug":"down-to-the-river-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/10\/18\/down-to-the-river-to-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Down to the river to play"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\u00ab En suivant le fleuve, on parvient \u00e0 la mer. \u00bb
\n – Plaute<\/em><\/p>\n

J’oublie souvent l’existence de notre fleuve ; j’avoue. Et pourtant, il n’y aura pas un Montr\u00e9al sans un St-Laurent.<\/p>\n

Fleuve, estuaire, bassin versant, et voie maritime : le fleuve Saint-Laurent creuse un sentier important dans l’histoire, la culture, l’\u00e9conomie, et la g\u00e9ographie de l’Am\u00e9rique du Nord. Avec son paysage unique, il joue le r\u00f4le de la porte d\u2019entr\u00e9e qui permet au continent de s’ouvrir au monde.<\/p>\n

Le Qu\u00e9bec attache une importance majeure au fleuve Saint-Laurent, car une grande partie de ses eaux courent \u00e0 travers son territoire. Selon le Minist\u00e8re de D\u00e9veloppement durable, Environnement, et Parcs<\/a>, plus de 80 % de la population du Qu\u00e9bec vit sur les rives du Saint-Laurent et de ses tributaires, et la moiti\u00e9 de celle-ci y puise son eau potable. Il va sans dire que ce fleuve exerce une grande influence sur la province.<\/p>\n

Autrefois, les citoyens fr\u00e9quentaient les berges pour s\u2019y d\u00e9tendre, s\u2019y baigner, et p\u00eacher. Ils profitaient d\u2019une grande accessibilit\u00e9 aux rives et d\u2019un fleuve riche en ressources. Malheureusement, les cons\u00e9quences de l\u2019industrialisation, de l\u2019urbanisation, et du d\u00e9veloppement agricole ont maintenant restreint l\u2019accessibilit\u00e9 aux rives. Les probl\u00e8mes environnementaux ont fait que vers la fin des ann\u00e9es 1970, le nombre d’activit\u00e9s r\u00e9cr\u00e9atives dans la vall\u00e9e du Saint-Laurent diminuait. Les nombreux enjeux, dont l’\u00e9tat des berges, la qualit\u00e9 de l’eau, l’urbanisation, et la gestion gouvernementale, continuent \u00e0 exercer une grande influence sur l\u2019accessibilit\u00e9 aux rives du Saint-Laurent<\/p>\n

En partenariat, le Qu\u00e9bec et le Canada, avec leur Plan Saint-Laurent pour le d\u00e9veloppement durable, s\u2019efforcent de restaurer l\u2019\u00e9tat du fleuve et de le redonner aux citoyens qui l’ont nagu\u00e8re abandonn\u00e9. La r\u00e9gion de Montr\u00e9al accueille presque la moiti\u00e9 de la population de la province et demeure un acteur majeur dans le projet d\u2019am\u00e9liorer l\u2019acc\u00e8s aux rives au Qu\u00e9bec. Avec son histoire industrielle, elle est en t\u00eate du palmar\u00e8s des r\u00e9gions qu\u00e9b\u00e9coises qui polluent le fleuve Saint-Laurent au Qu\u00e9bec. Par suite, elle contribue significativement aux enjeux qui nuisent \u00e0 l’accessibilit\u00e9 aux rives.<\/p>\n

Montr\u00e9al a beaucoup de travail \u00e0 faire afin de rendre ses terrains riverains plus accessibles. La Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 du Havre de Montr\u00e9al souligne que seulement 29 % des 31 km de berges dans le secteur du Vieux-Port et du canal Lachine sont accessibles. Lors des \u00e9lections municipales de 2009, certains candidats estimaient que la ville tourne son dos au fleuve.<\/p>\n

Or, les gouvernements font des efforts. Les acc\u00e8s potentiels li\u00e9s aux usages du Saint-Laurent sur l\u2019\u00eele de Montr\u00e9al ont \u00e9t\u00e9 cartographi\u00e9s. Cette premi\u00e8re d\u00e9marche vise \u00e0 reconna\u00eetre les endroits probl\u00e9matiques. De plus, en 2009, le port de Montr\u00e9al a annonc\u00e9 la r\u00e9ussite de son projet de d\u00e9contamination des sols. Graduellement, l\u2019\u00e9tat des terrains riverains s\u2019am\u00e9liore.<\/p>\n

Bien que le Plan Saint-Laurent pour le d\u00e9veloppement durable se termine \u00e0 la fin de cette ann\u00e9e, le chemin vers un meilleur fleuve continue. Le dialogue entre les grands d\u00e9cideurs s\u2019est ouvert. Peut-\u00eatre les rives sont-elles plus accessibles qu\u2019auparavant gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 cette gestion int\u00e9gr\u00e9e. Les diff\u00e9rentes \u00e9chelles du gouvernement, d\u00e9velopperont-ils davantage cet aspect pour la prochaine phase de gestion environnementale du fleuve Saint-Laurent ? Et la Ville, que doit-elle faire pour que nous revalorisions notre patrimoine naturel ?<\/p>\n

Que nous soyons, un jour, de retour aux bras du fleuve Saint-Laurent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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