First Nations to study viability of Ring of Fire road – The Globe and Mail
Mar. 01 2015
The Canadian government is helping study whether a road to the Ring of Fire mineral belt in northern Ontario is viable.
The $785,000 government-funded study to be carried out by First Nations groups is a tiny step toward the possible development of the Ring, a huge crescent of mostly chromite that some hope will bring economic prosperity to Canada’s north.
If the road is ever built, four of the nine First Nations groups that surround the deposit would be able to use it to get in and out of their remote communities.
“It’s a struggle to connect with mainstream society,” Cornelius Wabasse, the chief of Webequie First Nation, said at a mining conference in Toronto.
