{"id":30030,"date":"2025-04-17T16:42:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T23:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/ontario-to-table-legislation-that-will-speed-up-mine-development\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T16:42:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T23:42:17","slug":"ontario-to-table-legislation-that-will-speed-up-mine-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/ontario-to-table-legislation-that-will-speed-up-mine-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario to table legislation that will speed up mine development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>TORONTO \u2014 Ontario is set to table legislation that it says will speed up the development of mines.<\/p>\n<p>Officials also say the new bill will do away with several environmental assessments, including one of a proposed mine in the province\u2019s Ring of Fire region and another of a proposed landfill in southwestern Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Doug Ford says red tape and bureaucracy are holding Ontario\u2019s economy back.<\/p>\n<p>Ford has been pushing hard to mine critical minerals in northern Ontario for years, but has stepped up his efforts in recent months in the face of the trade war with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The province will also give itself the power to create \u201cspecial economic zones\u201d to help speed up projects.<\/p>\n<p>Many First Nations have voiced their concerns about Ford\u2019s plans to mine their traditional territories without their consent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a92025 The Canadian Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/dcn\/news\/resource\/2025\/04\/ontario-to-table-legislation-that-will-speed-up-mine-development\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] TORONTO \u2014 Ontario is set to table legislation that it says will speed up the development of mines. Officials &#8230; <a title=\"Ontario to table legislation that will speed up mine development\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/ontario-to-table-legislation-that-will-speed-up-mine-development\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ontario to table legislation that will speed up mine development\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1037],"tags":[357,295],"class_list":["post-30030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-commercial-news","tag-blog","tag-technology","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}