Quebec Cree Youth Grand Chief Adrian N. Gunner says he's concerned that youth have not been given enough say on the 30-year plan to build infrastructures on Cree territory.
MONTREAL - About one million square kilometres of Quebec is covered by boreal forest, roughly 70 per cent of the entire province. In the north, where ecosystems are less likely to have been altered by human activity, those forests have been accumulating and sequestering immense quantities of carbon for centuries.
There are nearly 400 mining exploration projects in the boreal forest of the Eeyou Istchee, the traditional lands of the James Bay Cree. It is unclear how many will result in operating mines in the coming years, but there is potential, and the government wants to take advantage of it.