Kylie Brezden, The Energy Mix

In northern Ontario, hundreds of kilometres from the nearest highway, a vast stretch of peatlands and boreal forest is being positioned as central to Canada’s economic future.

Beneath the dense peatlands of the James Bay Lowlands lies the Ring of Fire, a 5,000-square-kilometre section of mineral-rich geological formation in the McFaulds greenstone belt, mapped as a crescent of nickel, chromite, copper, platinum, and titanium deposits that could be used in cell phones, computers, medical devices, and electric vehicles. Above those underground treasures, the world’s largest intact peatland ecosystem stores vast amounts of carbon and supports Indigenous communities that have lived there for generations.

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