In the latest example of what conservation groups describe as the airport authority’s repeated failure to live up to its own environmental commitments, Aéroports de Montréal has destroyed 2,500 square metres of meadowlands north of Montreal-Trudeau International Airport.

The former meadow is on Crown land in Montreal’s St-Laurent borough — land that is included in the 230-hectare Parc-nature des Sources conservation project, for which broad support has been expressed by environmentalists, scientists and elected officials in the region.

Katherine Collin, president of the conservation group TechnoparcOiseaux, discovered the meadow had been razed last week. She was aware ADM was planning to replace a fence along the perimeter of the airport, but was shocked to find a large section of meadow

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