Editing Bas-Saint-Laurent (section)

==== Peat industry ====
The [[peat]] industry of Bas-Saint-Laurent extracts around 45% of the peat production of Quebec and builds specialized transformation tools de tourbe. There are around twenty companies in this industry that employ 1 500 and export 80% of their. Lately, this industry has made a great effort in converging with the agroenvironnemental industry, in fields like [[Biofilter|biofiltration]], [[compost]]ing, agriculture and horticulture<ref>{{cite web |title=Région Bas-Saint-Laurent : valorisation de la tourbe et des technologies agroenvironnementales |url=https://www.economie.gouv.qc.ca/fr/ministere/salle-de-presse/communiques-de-presse/communique-de-presse/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=4111 |website=Ministère des Finances et de l'Économie |publisher=[[Government of Quebec]] |access-date=7 January 2019}}</ref>

Around 2002, a number of initiatives were taken by the producers of the industry and the government of Quebec to develop the industry. The producers managed to perform a [[life-cycle assessment]] of the peat and experiment new processes to rehabilitate commercially exploited bogs.<ref>{{cite news |last1=CBC |title=Bas-Saint-Laurent : l'industrie de la tourbe en tête de peloton |url=https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/546597/tourbe-bas-saint-laurent-creneau |access-date=7 January 2019 |date=19 January 2002|author1-link=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation }}</ref>