https://library.icmglt.org/files/original/bb2a35dcc58c2e300cb7374565b6a08c.pdf d5c3442b47379c5c5c159e032b4ebba9 Electronic Resource View Source <a href="https://www.supplyroad.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/WSR_Appendix_Q_Health-Impact-Assessment-Report_r.pdf">https://www.supplyroad.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/WSR_Appendix_Q_Health-Impact-Assessment-Report_r.pdf</a> Document Type Research paper Publisher Webequie Supply Road Project Publication Date 2026 Region Northern Ontario, Canada Language English Access Open Access Abstract Webequie First Nation, the proponent, is proposing to construct the Webequie Supply Road (‘the Project’), a 107-kilometre all-season road connecting Webequie Airport and the McFaulds Lake area in northern Ontario. The Project includes the construction, operation and maintenance of the Webequie Supply Road, which would be within an approximately 35 metres wide right-of-way to accommodate a two-lane all-season road. Supportive infrastructure is required as part of the Project and includes aggregate/rock source areas (i.e., pit/quarries), temporary construction camps with storage and laydown yards, rest and maintenance areas, access roads and a permanent Maintenance and Storage Facility. The Project would connect Webequie First Nation to existing mineral exploration activities and potential future mineral development within the Ring of Fire area of Ontario. The Project could also become part of a future all-season road network connecting the Webequie First Nation and the Ring of Fire area to the provincial highway system in Nakina and/or Pickle Lake. The Ring of Fire is located in Northern Ontario, within the boundaries of Treaty 9. The lands are Anishinaabe (Ojibway) and First Nations ancestral territory. The primary objectives of the Project (“Need for the Project”), as determined by Webequie First Nation are: 1. Establish an all-season corridor that will facilitate the movement of materials, supplies, and people between the Webequie Airport and the mineral exploration and proposed mine development activities in the McFaulds Lake area of Northwestern Ontario (specifically, the camps, the drilling/exploration projects and, in the future, mining facilities). 2. Provide enhanced employment and other economic development opportunities to Webequie community members, while also allowing them to continue to reside in or around their community’s traditional territory, engage in traditional uses of the land, and preserve their language and culture; and 3. Provide experience/training opportunities for youth to help encourage pursuit of additional skills through post-secondary education. The Webequie Supply Road Project is subject to the federal IA process. The Project is also subject to comprehensive Environmental Assessment (EA) under the Ontario Environmental Assessment Act. For the purposes of the HIA, the two main phases of the IA process during which the majority of the HIA steps are carried out are Planning Phase and Impact Statement Phase, which includes preparation of the EAR / IS. Cataloger Haley Lesemann Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Appendix Q: Health Impact Assessment Subject The topic of the resource Social determinants of health--Ontario, Northern Health Indigenous peoples Mineral Industries Risk Factors