Last week, the Quebec government of Premier Jean Charest announced that it would extend a $58 million loan to Balcorp, a Montreal company that owns the Jeffrey Asbestos Mine in Asbestos, Quebec, which has been closed since November.

After town representatives met with state environmental officials, Eden select board members say solar could make sense at the site of the town's abandoned asbestos mine.

State environmental officials are continuing to float the idea of building a renewable energy project on the site of the abandoned asbestos mine in Eden and Lowell. Voters in the towns refused last month to declare the mine a Superfund site, which would have provided money to clean it up.

The federal and state government can't afford to clean up an abandoned asbestos mine in northern Vermont now that voters have rejected a Superfund designation for the site. That's the word from the state Agency of Natural Resources, and the EPA.

Voters in Eden and Lowell have overwhelmingly rejected the idea of adding a closed asbestos mine to the national list of Superfund hazardous waste sites. A Superfund designation would have put the property in line for federal cleanup money.

Two Northeast Kingdom towns will vote next month on whether to have an abandoned asbestos mine declared a Superfund hazardous waste site. The state argues that the Superfund listing could bring in federal money to clean up the site.

Montreal Gazette reporter Michell Lalonde discusses the controversy raging in Canada involving exports of asbestos to Third Wold countries.

The Vermont Supreme Court says a landowner can sue the president of the Vermont Asbestos Group over contamination on property next to a former asbestos mine in Eden and Lowell.