“Sheinbaum is much more pragmatic, understands nature perhaps more, and understands climate and perhaps won’t be as radical,” Beaty said by phone this week in Vancouver. “The former president was a kind of an older generation person. He didn’t believe in climate change, he didn’t want renewable energy, he didn’t want private sector development and he had a dislike for certain Mexican companies in the mining industry.”
Beaty spoke as he was preparing for a cross-Canada fundraising bicycle relay from Vancouver to Equinox’s Greenstone gold project at Geraldton in northern Ontario. Riders should finish the epic 3,634-km journey in time to open the mine in August.
Hospital funding
The pedal-powered trip will benefit the Geraldton District Hospital, just five minutes from the mine. More than C$1 million has already raised or pledged. The hospital serves 2,767 km sq. of Northern Ontario, including five Indigenous…
