Environment

$332M to promote sustainable development and the vitality of communities across the territory:
- Note that of this amount, $250M is dedicated to assistance for municipalities to improve and maintain the local road network.
$96M to strengthen Quebec’s capacity to adapt to climate change, including:
- $48.4M to ensure resilience to disasters;
- $30.3M to sustain the resources needed for the safety of public dams;
- $17M to increase the resilience of technology infrastructure.
An enhancement of the implementation plan of the 2030 Plan for a Green Economy is also planned for the spring, in the amount of $200M, for a total of $10.2B.
Relaunch of the Roulez vert program on April 1^st, 2025.
- As announced in the 2025-2025 budget, rebates on the purchase of electric vehicles will be gradually reduced and will no longer be offered for vehicles registered as of January 1^st, 2027.

$15M to continue the sound management of residual materials
- Covers aligning recycled materials with market needs, fighting food waste, optimizing the ecocentre network, supporting isolated communities, home and community composting, and the circular economy in the tourism sector.
Increase of $392.7M in the Environment sector of the Québec Infrastructure Plan (QIP) 2025-2035, notably for the Programme de traitement des matières organiques par biométhanisation et compostage, bringing the total for this sector to $1.4B.
$106.6M to renew the Québec Plan for the Development of Critical and Strategic Minerals for the 2025-2030 period, including knowledge acquisition in asbestos management (asbestos mining residues).

Also in the QIP, $108M for investments needed to reach the targets set by the government in the 2030 Plan for a Green Economy (target of a 60% reduction in GHG emissions from the government building stock in the 2024-2029 Implementation Plan.
$1.8M over two years to develop the integrated energy resource management plan, including consultations with municipalities and stakeholders and technical studies.

$39.6M to step up efforts to protect the environment and biodiversity, including:
- $24M to hire more wildlife protection officers;
- $11.4M to carry out integrity analyses of corrective work on problematic inactive oil and gas wells.
- $4.2M to protect Atlantic salmon by maintaining the actions of organizations that actively contribute to monitoring, counting and protecting populations.
$27.4M to support Indigenous communities in their participation in wildlife management and development.
$35.6M over 2 years to renew the program protecting silvicultural investments against the spruce budworm (aerial spraying program using biological insecticide).

The government wants to ensure that environmental authorizations are issued within an optimal timeframe and is investing $62.8M over 5 years in the BAPE to renew the staff needed to do so.
- The increase in BAPE staff has made it possible to issue 88% of authorizations within 75 days or less, exceeding the 85% target.