NEMASKA, QUE. As Freddy Jolly’s pickup truck travels the dusty roads through the spruce forests outside Nemaska, Que., the one radio station fades in and…
Starting in 2025, approximately 15 heavy trucks a day will roar through the ancestral hunting grounds of the Nemaska Cree, carrying the thousands of tonnes of ore that Nemaska Lithium plans to mine.
CHISASIBI, Que. - Heather House studies full-time through McGill University’s distance education program, and when she is not immersed in books she is raising her eight children with her husband in Chisasibi, the northernmost community in Quebec accessible by road.
Feeding a family of eight children, two parents, and two elders in such a remote community where grocery prices are among the highest in the country would be a major challenge if it were not for access to the land for hunting, fishing, trapping, and berry picking. A major lithium mine project may disrupt this.