Ottawa moves to acquire land for Lac-Megantic rail bypass, 10 years after disaster

OTTAWA — The federal government is moving to acquire land so that it can build a rail bypass in Lac\u002DMegantic, Que., nearly 10 years after a downtown freight…

Transport Minister Omar Alghabra announced that he made the difficult decision to expropriate land after the failure of negotiations to purchase property from local landowners.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails or any newsletter.

The rail disaster took place early in the morning on July 6, 2013, when an unattended freight train carrying crude oil derailed downtown and multiple cars exploded, killing 47 people and flattening 30 buildings. Negotiations with landowners began in 2021, and the negotiation period was extended three times “to allow landowners more time to properly evaluate their offer, to use the services of experts and to obtain reports related to the value and sale of their property,” the minister said in his statement Monday evening.

Procurement Minister Helena Jaczek was the one to initiate the expropriation process, Alghabra’s statement said, and he promised that the government would be by landowners’ side throughout the process.

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