The map of the fires taken an hour in the past and the map of their 2025 mining undertaking are only a easy coincidence, a person says in a Fb publish.
The publication contains two maps: one purporting to indicate the wildfires at present raging in Quebec, and one other titled “Quebec’s Key Minerals of the Future: Initiatives and Mines.”
The publish has been shared at the very least hundreds of occasions on Fb, the place there are dozens of copies. The playing cards additionally discovered their manner onto Twitter and TikTok, the place a number of movies garnered over 100,000 complete views.
Screenshot of the circulating publish.
Picture: Screenshot – Fb
The map at left is a screenshot of a map from Pure Assets Canada’s Canadian Wildland Hearth Data System revealed June 5 on the Montreal newspaper Le Devoir (New Window) web site. This map confirmed the state of affairs on the bottom at the moment.
The map at proper is from the Quebec authorities web site (New window). Regardless of the wording, the map doesn’t present the situation of proposed mining tasks in Quebec, however reasonably exhibits deposits of mineral sources inside the province.
A map displaying the precise areas(New Window)of roughly thirty mining tasks in Quebec may be discovered on the web site of the Ministry of Pure Assets and Forests.
If we evaluate this final map with a map displaying the present standing of forest fires on the SOPFEU web site (New Window), we see that there is no such thing as a connection between these and the areas of mining tasks.
The fires additionally appear to be occurring primarily in areas the place no mining undertaking is deliberate. For instance, within the Rouyn-Noranda area there aren’t any lively forest fires, though a 3rd of the mining tasks are deliberate there.
You’ll be able to view the distinction between the 2 maps utilizing the interactive software beneath.
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