Not So Clean Energy
![Aerial colour photograph of a former refinery in Saint-François, located near a river and a residential neighbourhood.](https://www.communitystories.ca/v2/laval-economie-diversifiee_economic-diversification/wp-content/uploads/sites/99/2020/03/C1-D3-026.jpg)
The former oil refinery in Saint-François in the 1960s
Reference: Société d’histoire et de généalogie de l’Île Jésus, C1/D3, 026
While there are no longer any oil industry facilities in Laval today, there was once a refinery in Saint-François.