Tag: ontario
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Ontario Mine Rescue District Competition Winners to Compete in Thunder Bay
Ontario Mine Rescue district competitions were underway in arenas across the province last month, where twenty teams of mine rescue volunteers demonstrated their emergency response capabilities at the event. This week’s Blog takes a closer look at the event, as well as the winners from each provincial mining district.
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Ring of Fire: High-Stakes Mining in a Lowlands Wilderness
When prospectors discovered a gigantic crescent of metal deposits under the James Bay Lowlands of northern Canada in 2007, the find touched off a mining rush, lured a major American company to spend fortunes in the remote swamp, and forced politicians to confront their legal duty to consult Indigenous Peoples about development on their traditional…