Construction is underway on the first all-season access road leading into Northern Ontario’s Ring of Fire mining region.
Premier Doug Ford visited Webequie First Nation on June 25 to commemorate the start of construction of the 107-kilometre Webequie Supply Road, which will connect the first nation community to the Ring of Fire mineral deposits. The road is scheduled to open by November 2030.
The trip to the remote, fly-in Ojibway community some 540 kilometres north of Thunder Bay also marked Ford’s first visit to the critical mineral-rich region he has often referenced since taking office in 2018.
Ford described the Ring of Fire project in a press statement as a way to economically protect Ontario while supporting “true economic reconciliation” with First Nations….