THUNDER BAY — Local leaders have come back from a conference of Ontario municipalities expressing enthusiasm over the province’s commitment to growing the lithium refining industry in Thunder Bay.
City councillors called that a potentially game-changing step for the city’s economy during a press conference debriefing the Thunder Bay delegation’s recent trip to the Association of Municipalities of Ontario annual conference, which was held this week in London.
Coun. Shelby Ch’ng, vice-chair of the city’s intergovernmental affairs committee, expressed particular excitement over discussions with provincial ministers regarding cleanup of contaminated former industrial lands in Thunder Bay’s north harbour, which she said has drawn interest as a potential lithium processing site.
Officials were referring to the former Superior Fine Papers mill site, located on the waterfront in Current River.
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