In North Bay, you can drive from the overpass to McIntyre Street, and a quick look to the left and you see a billboard with the smiling face of Nipissing MPP Vic Fedeli, and on the billboard is the quote, ‘Developing the Ring of Fire.’ You can also go back over a decade and find articles about Fedeli talking about the need to develop the Ring of Fire.
The ‘Ring of Fire’ refers to a mineral-rich crescent-shaped geographical region in the James Bay Lowlands.
More than a decade ago, when Fedeli sat in opposition, he made trips to the site to see, firsthand, what the potential of the mining find could be for Ontario.
In the government for the last seven years, the Ring of Fire still hasn’t been developed, and the various minerals still are untapped. On Friday, at an announcement for the n