No danger after freight train derailment near Quebec-Ontario border
SAINT-POLYCARPE, Que. — Quebec’s public security minister offered assurances Tuesday that nothing leaked into a nearby river after a Canadian Pacific freight train derailment just east of the Ontario border.
The Quebec Environment Department says 25 of the 95 rail cars derailed near Saint-Polycarpe on Monday night, but officials said there were no injuries or evacuations.
Canadian Pacific teams were working Tuesday to re-establish traffic on the rail line, which is used to transport goods between Montreal and Vancouver.
Public Security Minister Martin Coiteux, who visited the site of the derailment Tuesday, said “the situation was firmly under control, there were no leaks and at no moment was the safety of the population compromised.”