Mining exploration causing permanent damage in Ring of Fire, Wildlands League says – CBC
Jun 29, 2015
Environmental group takes photos to show landscape is ‘disturbed and disrupted’
Photos released Monday by the Wildlands League are proof that mining activity is causing permanent damage in a fragile ecosystem in northern Ontario, according to the environmental group.
The pictures of a snowy boreal forest patterned with grid lines and pockmarked by drill rig indentations were taken during a March flight across the mineral-rich area, known as the Ring of Fire, in the James Bay lowlands.
The images challenge the idea that early mining exploration is benign, said Wildlands League director of conservation planning, Anna Baggio.
