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Environmental Déjà vu

Determined environmentalists are working to halt construction near James Bay over a massive project's potential impacts on the area's environment, wildlife and First Nation's communities. Hmm, haven't we been down that James Bay Road before? But this time it's not hydro development in northern Quebec, but diamond mining in northern Ontario.

The De Beer's diamond conglomerate has received approval from the federal government to proceed with the $982 million Victor Diamond Project near Attawapiskat, Ont. The Canadian Parks and Wildlife Society Wildlands League are spearheading a campaign to stall the project under the Ontario provincial government's Environmental Bill of Rights for further review of the project's land-use planning. They are looking to protect the intact wilderness area and First Nation's communities, who have been untouched by industrial development, from a mining project that has a life span of 15 years or less. Is the government being shortsighted in allowing a short-term project to permanently impact a previously untouched area? Are they doomed to repeat many of the same mistakes made over decades of controversy with Hydro Quebec's James Bay Project? Or, will this project have a different ending with benefits to all involved? Tell us what you think.

To learn more, go to:
http://www.cpaws.org/boreal/english/getinvolved/action-ontario-main.html

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