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Volkswagen almost set up its huge factory in September IL

Volkswagen almost set up its huge factory in September IL

Volkswagen considered Sept Elle to set up its massive battery plant, information that caused surprise on the North Shore.

With a deep water port, available land and proximity to electricity production, Sept-Îles was one of the options considered by the German automaker for its battery manufacturing plant project.

This was confirmed by the Minister for Economy, Innovation and Energy, Pierre Fitzgibbon, during a press conference on Thursday morning. “It took 6,000 employees and employees. Volkswagen promised 6,000 people in September, I didn’t have the nerve to keep that promise.

On the North Shore, no one seems aware of Volkswagen’s interest in Sept-El. Mayor Steve Beaupre is disappointed that this project did not materialize, even if he agrees that hiring 6,000 workers in a city of 28,000 is a major hurdle.

“Maybe it was too ambitious for the city of Sept-El, but we can’t always dismiss a project like that outright, saying it’s too ambitious or we won’t be able to support the workforce. I was surprised, but I still see it in a positive way.

The Minister for Labor and the Minister responsible for the North Shore, Katiere Champagne-Jordan, responded briefly, but did not indicate that she was aware of a possible interest from Volkswagen in September-el.

“There are economic development projects currently under consideration related to Sept El Bay. Of course, as Provincial Secretary, I will make sure that we can move these projects forward. The information I had was that Volkswagen was looking for land around Montreal,” she explained.

Faced with the inability of the Quebec government to quickly provide the electricity needed for its plant, Volkswagen decided to base it in Ontario. However, Mr. Fitzgibbon remains confident that he can attract other battery manufacturing projects in Quebec, though not necessarily on the North Shore.

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According to him, the failure of the Volkswagen project indicates that the construction of the power transmission line to Montreal should be accelerated. These remarks worry MRC Governor Sept-Rivières and Mayor of Port-Cartier, Alain Thibault.

For a government that calls itself the “Government of the Regions,” I think they got away with it hard. Sends a strange message. Mr. Fitzgibbon wants to have transmission lines to carry electricity from the North Shore to Montreal, saying to himself, “We have other projects.” The other projects, do you mean they’ll be in Montreal? What will we become the rest of the territories? It already hurts enough the way it is, said Mr. Thibault.

Elected officials in Côte-Nord will be vigilant over the next few years to ensure that hydroelectric production, especially that of the Romain complex, can create wealth in a region that is the only one in Quebec experiencing demographic decline.