"Fifty years ago, following the discovery of vast mineral deposits, Leaf Rapids was designed and built in a span of four years and heralded as the town of the future. Today, it's hanging by a thread."
Mining always leaves devastation in its wake. It comes, it extracts and what it leaves is toxic waste, destroyed Nature and lost people. We will soon be mining a Mount Everest of materials every year to feed our devouring civilization. Collapse is coming.
Winnipeg Free Press
Manitoba's summer wildfire threat was the latest nail in the coffin for once-prosperous Leaf Rapids
LEAF RAPIDS — Travelling north of the 56th parallel along Provincial Road 391, the boreal forest occasionally thins to showcase where lake meets ...