2023-06-09 06:41:47
h and the map of their mining project for by 2025 just a simple coincidence”,”text”:”Fire map taken 1h ago and the map of their mining project for by 2025 just a simple coincidence “”>Map of the fires taken 1 hour ago and the map of their mining project for by 2025 just a simple coincidence
says a user in a Facebook post.
The publication contains two maps: one that supposedly shows the forest fires raging right now in Quebec and another labeled: projects and mines”,”text”:”The main minerals of the future in Quebec: projects and mines”}}”>The main minerals of the future in Quebec: projects and mines.
The post has been shared at least thousands of times on Facebook, where there are dozens of copies. The cards also found their way onto Twitter and TikTok, where several videos have garnered over 100,000 total views.
The map on the left is a screenshot of a map from the Canadian Wildland Fire Information System of Natural Resources Canada, published on June 5 on the website of the Montreal daily The duty (New window). This map showed the situation on the ground on that date.
The map on the right comes from the Government of Quebec website (New window). Despite the wording, the map does not show the location of planned mining projects in Quebec, but rather deposits of mineable mineral resources within the province.
A map showing the true location (New window) of regarding thirty Quebec mining projects can be found on the website of the Ministère des Ressources naturelles et des Forêts.
If we compare this last map to a map representing the current state of forest fires on the SOPFEU site (New window)we see that there is no connection between these and the location of the mining projects.
The fires also seem to be mainly taking place in regions where no mining project is planned. There are no active forest fires in the Rouyn-Noranda region, for example, although a third of the mining projects are planned there.
You can view the difference between the two maps using the interactive tool below.
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