By Anushka Yadav, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Pointer “We’re not protesters. We’re protectors.” That’s what Michel Koostachin, founder of grassroots group, the Friends of the Attawapiskat River, declared as he launched the first legal challenge against a Ring of Fire access road, days after the federal government approved the project in the “public interest” despite its own impact assessment warning it would cause “irreversible” harm to the environment and Indigenous ways of life. On June 25, the Province broke ground on one of three road projects that would together create a major access corridor into the mineral-rich Ring of Fire: the 107-kilometre all-season Webequie Supply Road aims to connect Webequie Airport to the McFaulds Lake area, linking the community to mineral exploration and potential future mining development in the…
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