{"id":839827,"date":"2026-08-01T06:29:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T06:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/839827\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T06:29:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T06:29:19","slug":"ottawa-approves-northern-ontario-nickel-mine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/839827\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa approves northern Ontario nickel mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1785565759_767_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Minister of Environment and Climate Change Julie Dabrusin rises during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Monday, June 1, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Spencer Colby<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 31, 2026 | 12:12 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 The federal government says it has approved the Crawford Nickel Mine project in northern Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the approval in a news release Friday, Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin said \u201cthe potential effects within federal jurisdiction are justified when taking into account the benefits this project will provide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The government says the project could create $5 billion in investment and 4,000 new jobs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s decision recognizes the strategic importance of responsibly developing Canada\u2019s critical mineral resources in partnership with all levels of government and Indigenous Nations while maintaining rigorous environmental standards,\u201d Canada Nickel CEO Mark Selby said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minister of Environment and Climate Change Julie Dabrusin rises during Question Period in the House of Commons on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":839828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-839827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}