pWhen Lomiko Metals Inc., a mining company based in Surrey, B.C.
Five Quebec municipalities located by a proposed site for a graphite mine with ties to the U.S. Pentagon have created an alliance to accelerate public consultations on the project and pressure the provincial government to listen to what locals have to say.
Since then, municipalities near the proposed mine site — Duhamel, Lac-Simon, Chénéville, St-Émile-de-Suffolk and Lac-des-Plages — have decided to take charge of informing the public. Rodrigue Turgeon, national program co-lead at Mining Watch Canada, says the level of engagement from the communities so early in the process is “unusual” in the country, calling it a “true example to be followed by other municipalities.”
“We don't want to have a gigantic open pit mine in the middle of all those lakes and all those people living around them,” he said, insisting that few locals support the project, especially after Lomiko announced in May it received a grant of $11.4 million from the Pentagon.The Pentagon has said Lomiko's graphite will bolster North American energy supply chains and be used for “defence applications.
In a statement, Lomiko chief sustainability officer Cindy Valence told The Canadian Press that the company has already met with “a multitude of stakeholders” and will “follow all government processes as a responsible operator in the critical minerals sector.”
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