Photo Gallery: What will power the Ring of Fire?

By Canadian Press on December 11, 2025.

This photography was supported by the Pulitzer Centre.

As a warming climate forces changes to their ways of life, Webequie and Neskantaga First Nations are charting diverging courses in responding to a push for development in northern Ontario’s Ring of Fire.

But one thing they share is a desire to get off the costly, unsustainable diesel they rely on for power.

The Canadian Press visited the region to understand the day-to-day realities of life in the communities, and reported on the ways the coveted Ring of Fire region may ultimately be electrified.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published December 10, 2025.

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