Innu community block access road to highlight environmental, employment concerns
CBC News,
Workers at Tata Steel Minerals’ Schefferville mine, near the Labrador-Quebec border, have been sent home after a blockade was set up by members of a local First Nations community.
The blockade, set up Thursday night by the Innu community of Matimekush-Lac-John, is on the access road to the mine, which usually has about 400 workers but is now staffed by a skeleton crew of about 30, according to Armand MacKenzie, Tata Steel Minerals Canada’s Vice-President, Government and Stakeholders Relations. Read the rest of this entry →
Innu community block access road to highlight environmental, employment concerns
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