Under Ontario’s Far North Act, 2010, emerging community-based land use plans cannot consider the rate, location and intensity of past and new industrial development, such as the mining proposals and ...

Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith signed an agreement to build a railway to the mineral-rich Ring ...

Ontario's "Ring of Fire" mineral belt was supposed to be a $60-billion natural resources treasure trove that would bring employment and economic prosperity to a remote part of the province's north.

The Ring of Fire site is located 400 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay, Ont., ... Ring of Fire needs urgency, warns Ontario Chamber of Commerce ...

What’s at stake in Ontario’s Ring of Fire. The James Bay Lowlands in northern Ontario contain one of the largest potential mineral reserves in Canada. Now, the region’s economy and environment stand ...

Neskantaga filed a lawsuit against the Ontario government over the Ring of Fire in November 2021, saying the consultation process has been “inadequate.” In June, chiefs of Matawa and Mushkegowuk ...

Ontario is also moving to repeal the province’s controversial Far North Act to expedite development. Regional assessment announced for Ring of Fire region. In February, the federal government ...

The minerals Ontario wants to access in the Ring of Fire, which include copper, platinum, palladium and nickel, are buried in an area more than 300 km north of the province's existing highway network.

Discovered almost by accident in 2002 by diamond major De Beers, which at the time was looking for diamonds, but instead found copper and zinc, the 5 000 km2 Ring of Fire deposit, which is about 1 ...

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is determined to change that narrative. He and his Conservative government envision a future that involves mining Ring of Fire nickel, necessary to build EV batteries in ...

The climate trade-off of developing Ontario's Ring of Fire. While a remote Ontario peat bog may not be the stage that first comes to mind when picturing the geopolitical conflict, ...

The Ontario government on Thursday announced that it had established the Ring of Fire (RoF) Infrastructure Development Corporation, first mooted in November last year. The provincial government ...