Pipe bombs have allegedly been placed under machinery on the site of Northvolt’s future battery plant in Montérégie, seriously endangering employees, according to the company.
Paolo Cerruti, President and CEO of Northvolt North America, denounced the acts of vandalism that took place over the weekend on Monday.
“Our team discovered this morning that homemade bombs had been placed under machinery this weekend, with the clear intention of injuring our workers and presumably slowing down our operations. The triggering devices did not work,” reads a press release issued by the company.
Northvolt vigorously condemns “this cowardly attempt to frighten our teams and force us to interrupt our project which, we would like to reiterate, consists of building a technology campus enabling the acceleration of the energy transition and the manufacture of batteries essential to decarbonization.”
Paolo Cerruti is scheduled to speak on the matter in a news conference Monday afternoon.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published in French on May 6, 2024.