La Loutre is at a make-or-break point as Western countries promote domestic battery metal projects to supply the transition away from fossil fuels and from depending on China for minerals and processing. But it also lies at the juncture of support or not from a province considered to have some of the most pro-mining legislation and that is aggressively building local battery minerals capacity.
The Petite-Nation Lakes Protection Group, which represents five municipalities in the Laurentian Mountains region around La Loutre, says it’s concerned the proposed open-pit on the dividing line between two watersheds will pollute waters.
Lake district
“There are very big lakes around this project and there are thousands of people living around it, and more and more those are permanent residents, not only cottagers,” Petite-Nation organizer Louis Saint Hilaire said by phone on Monday. “That’s the reason why there’s such a…
