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Groups ask for pause to Ring of Fire work until plans in place for clean water, peatlands
Noront Resources announced in 2019 that it planned on locating a ferrochrome processing plant in Sault Ste. Marie that would be fed by chromite from the Ring of Fire. Ministry of Energy, Northern Development and Mines Photo / Facebook
A coalition of Indigenous and environmental organizations is calling on the Canadian and Ontario governments to impose an “immediate moratorium” on all mineral exploration or impact assessment work related to the Ring of Fire region.
A dozen organizations, including the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) and the Omushkegowuk Women s Water Council (OWWC), have penned an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Environment and Climate Change Minister Jonathan Wilkinson and provincial leaders asking for the pause.
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Environmental opposition to the Ring of Fire is growing
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Environmental opposition to the Ring of Fire is growing
Toronto environmental law group joins voices calling for protection of Far North wetlands
Feb 25, 2021 2:30 PM By: Northern Ontario Business Staff
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A Toronto-based legal group is throwing its support behind the opposition to development in the Ring of Fire mineral belt.
The Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA), whose clients are the Friends of the Attawapiskat River, is calling for an immediate moratorium on all mineral exploration and all mine-related development, including a halt to the environmental assessments underway for the proposed community, supply, and ore-haul access roads.
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TALOYOAK, NU, Feb. 20, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) On the coast of Aviqtuuq, the Nunavut hamlet of Taloyoak is home to 1,100 residents and one $500,000 Arctic Inspiration Prize for their food sovereignty project. WWF-Canada is proud to have helped support the community in developing this prize-winning proposal as well as other ongoing environmental initiatives.
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, which means our food in Inuktitut, was the winning submission from Taloyoak s Spence Bay Hunter & Trapper Association (the community was formerly called Spence Bay) and seeks to create a country-food economy in the most northern community on Canada s mainland.
Country food is the term for what s caught locally as opposed to expensive store food flown up from the south, but it is becoming increasingly inaccessible due to poverty, climate change and cultural loss.