Miners grow anxious as Canada tightens foreign investment rules
Junior mining companies hoping to produce lithium, nickel and other green energy metals are worried that Canada’s crackdown on some overseas investors may limit their ability to raise funds for mines and related facilities.
How Canada’s Critical Minerals Strategy is accelerating the sector
Keean Nembhard, Press Secretary for the Office of the Minister of Natural Resources, outlines the details of the recently published Canadian Critical Minerals Strategy and what this means for Canada’s economy.
A critical transition
Canada’s ambition to supply the world with critical minerals will have to be matched by its efforts at reconciliation.
Mining’s Essential Role in Technology Development
Canada’s mining and critical minerals goals hinge on the North
The future of Canada’s mining industry lies increasingly in remote and northern regions, but the infrastructure deficit in these parts of the country brings significant challenges.
Canadian mining CEO: ‘I never talked to the Americans until 2018’
A Q&A with the Mining Association of Canada’s Pierre Gratton on growing U.S. engagement, declining mineral reserves and top priorities for Biden’s visit.
Federal government announces strategy to boost critical minerals sector
In December 2022, Natural Resources Canada Minister Jonathan Wilkinson releases the government’s critical minerals strategy (CMS). Wilkinson said the plan would “seize a generational opportunity for clean, inclusive growth.” The government’s rationale for the strategy is that critical minerals (also called transition minerals) are the building blocks of clean technology, and they help create good […]
Canada’s shift to greener energy faces long road
Ottawa has approved an environmental assessment for a lithium mining project in Quebec, as Canada looks to grow its presence in the critical mineral space and shift towards clean energy. Mackenzie Gray looks at how Canada wants to gain a footing in the race for rare earth element production, and how there’s still a long […]
Op-ed: Canada’s Opportunity – Building the Mining Projects the World Needs
By now it is a foregone conclusion that in order for net-zero to be achieved the increased adoption of low carbon technologies is essential, with mining propelling the current seismic energy transition. Electric cars cannot exist without lithium, nickel and cobalt, nuclear energy without uranium, wind turbines and solar panels without copper, zinc, iron and […]
Canada’s new foreign investment scrutiny a risk for M&A in key sectors
Canadian financial dealmakers are raising the alarm about Ottawa’s proposal to more closely scrutinize national security implications of foreign acquisitions of Canadian companies, warning that such interventions could deter foreign investments and slow impending deals in critical sectors.
