First Nation fears De Beers landfill could be ‘another Juukan Gorge’
The Attawapiskat First Nation has raised concern about the new landfill that global diamond miner De Beers, a unit of diversified major Anglo American, plans to build at the Victor mine site in the James Bay Lowlands of Canada.
The new landfill, for which De Beers is seeking approval from the Ontario government, will be filled up with mine demolition waste. The mine is in closure phase, having operated from 2005 to 2019.
The new landfill will be in a place that has been of critical cultural, spiritual and subsistence importance to the Kattawapiskak Cree People for thousands of years, the First Nation says in a statement.