Ring of Fire road deals signed with two FN communities

FIRST NATIONS COMMUNITIES SIGN AGREEMENTS TO BUILD RING OF FIRE ACCESS ROADS

It happened at one of the largest mining conferences in Canada.

Ontario signed agreements with two Indigenous communities in a move the government says is a step forward in its plans to build road access to the Ring of Fire region. Premier Ford announced the new deals with the Marten Falls First Nation and Webequie First Nation at the Prospectors and Developers conference on Monday.

The previous Liberal government had signed deals with three of the nine communities surrounding the Ring of Fire, including Marten Falls and Webequie.

But in August, the Ford government canceled those deals in favour of pursuing new individual agreements with the nine First Nations.

The Ring of Fire holds some of the world’s richest deposits of chromite, nickel, copper and platinum — valued at anywhere from $30 billion to $60 billion.

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