Most advanced Ring of Fire mine to proceed without impact assessment – iPolitics
December 18th, 2025
Wyloo’s Eagle Nest mine currently sits outside federal jurisdiction, and Ontario’s Bill 5 killed the requirement for a comprehensive assessment.
Eagle’s Nest, one of the most advanced mining projects in northwestern Ontario’s geologically rich Ring of Fire region, has been in the works for almost 15 years but governments have never completed a comprehensive assessment of it.
Under the current rules, Eagle’s Nest is not subject to federal assessment because its proposed production capacity is less than 5,000 tonnes per day.
Ontario and Ottawa developed assessment guidelines for the project back in 2015, but the federal government ended up shelving the process when the Impact Assessment Act (IAA) took effect in 2019.
