Formal Request for a Regional Assessment with respect to Marten Falls Community Access Road Project (Reference number: 80184) and Webequie Supply Road (Reference number: 80183)

Dear Minister:
Please consider this letter as our formal request to conduct a regional assessment for the Ring of Fire
region of northern Ontario.
We are submitting this request in our capacity as scientists with Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
Canada with 15 years of experience in the region of question (see Our Expertise below). We are
engaged in the individual projects assessments of Marten Falls Community Access Road Project
(MFCARP) (Reference number: 80184) and Webequie Supply Road (WSRP) (Reference number: 80183).
The Federal government has the capacity under the new Impact Assessment Act to assess the region
broadly and can use the Ring of Fire as an effective example of the benefits of the new legislation
including: addressing other risks to social-ecological systems that cannot be addressed in project-level
assessment or Ontario’s environmental assessment program; addressing cumulative effects; and,
addressing Aboriginal and Treaty rights, claims and interests that stand to be directly and cumulatively
impacted by individual projects and the larger Ring of Fire development.