Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny

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Working People · Train crashes destroyed their towns. Will yours be next? · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

My name is Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny.

I'm not from Lac-Mégantic.

I've been an activist against contamination in the what you call sacrifice zones, cancer clusters and stuff like that for more than 30 years.

I was in Lac-Mégantic five days after the tragedies because I understood the intense contamination that would have happened there.

And there I decided to go to the bottom of that, to name the people, not the system, but the people responsible, what happened.

And to this day, I am sad to say, I think what I did in the essay and the book, the two books that I published on that, I think that is the more in-depth answer.

investigation of what happened there that exists since the authorities didn't do any, they did a cover up, they didn't do any investigations.

I got there five days after the tragedy, simply because on day one, what was put on the media was obviously lies, which we could very easily find out by ourselves.

The first lies was that there was no contamination, only 100,000 litres of

which was each cars had that.

And there were a bunch of them.

So there was a lie.

Second, most important also, I think, is the fact that it was a very heavy oil, which would not explode.

Well, there had been two huge explosions during the night.

And just by following the tracks, you could see that it was back in oil.

So it was very volatile oil.

Within a few hours, the lights were out, so that's why we decided to go there.

For me, when I got there, I thought that Mégantic was the symbol of everything I've seen, which was predators, governments who oiled the doors to help them, and then the victims left to themselves.

And this was the symbol of everything, but with one extraordinary distinction, was the fact that there was death

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