Schefferville revisited: The rise and fall (and rise again) of iron mining in Québec-Labrador

Rodon, Thierry; Keeling, Arn; Boutet, J-S

doi:10.1016/j.exis.2021.101008

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“…A hydroelectric power station was also built to supply the town and mine. At its peak in 1976, Schefferville had more than 3,400 inhabitants (Rodon, Keeling, & Boutet, 2021).…”

Section: Schefferville the Establishment Of Schefferville The Creatio...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The train stops on demand along the line, allowing the Innu to access their hunting camp and thus practice their ancestral activities. The town that had 3,400 inhabitants in 1976, had only 155 in 2016, of which 40 percent are Innu (Rodon et al, 2021).…”

Section: The Closure Of Scheffervillementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The town resembles many other Canadian Indigenous communities. Here, mining is less present in the community space, but it is still in people's minds (Rodon et al, 2021).…”

Section: Post-extraction Future Visions During the Mining Boommentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The two Indigenous communities are also better able to benefit from mining since their rights are now recognized by the Canadian court and the government. Those rights might include ancestral title to the land, and this makes it impossible to open a mine without first signing an impact and benefit agreement (IBA) with the Indigenous communities concerned (Southcott et al, 2018;Rodon et al, 2021). These agreements present a form of consent, offering legal protection for the company.…”

Section: Post-extraction Future Visions During the Mining Boommentioning

confidence: 99%

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Mining Towns in Transition

Malmgren¹,

Avango²,

Persson³

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Resource Extraction and Arctic Communities

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Mining Towns in TransitionArctic Legacies judit malmgren, dag avango, curt persson, annika e. nilsson, thierry rodonTowns built around mining operations in the Arctic tend to be vulnerable during deindustrialization as most jobs are in a single industry. This one-sided labor market, along with substantial distances to other employers or business opportunities entails very limited access to alternative sources of income. Therefore, when a crisis hits, the challenges of sustaining former mining towns are particularly severe. Another challenge is the legacy of the mining past that the companies leave behind.In this chapter, we use a broad definition of the concept of legacies: It will signify anything handed down from the past, material and immaterial. To define what mining legacies may consist of, we will apply a socio-technical systems perspective, incorporating all social and physical components needed for mining (Hansson, 1998;Avango et al., 2019). Thus, material legacies of mining are artefacts and structures constructed and used in mining systems, such as mines and processing plants, infrastructure for transport and energy, waste and morphologically transformed landscapes, as well as built environments for housing, services, and sociocultural activities such as sports, entertainment, culture, and religious practice. Immaterial legacies of mining can be entities such as skills, identities, and memories.Research on the role of such legacies in post-industrial transitions has shown that they can be used for supporting the sustainability of industrial settlements beyond the end of the industries supporting them (Isacson, 2013;Orre, 2016;Kempinsky, 2017). This can take different forms. One is by re-using and repurposing material legacies, for example, running a workshop in a former generator building or using a mining road as a tourist trail. Another is by heritagization, which we here define as a process in which actors define and ascribe particular and exclusive historical values to selected legacies and protect them for posterity (Harrison, 2013). Heritagization can generate new economic values but also other values, such as quality of living. Can legacies from the past also help Arctic mining towns in transition to survive? 229

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“…A hydroelectric power station was also built to supply the town and mine. At its peak in 1976, Schefferville had more than 3,400 inhabitants (Rodon, Keeling, & Boutet, 2021).…”

Section: Schefferville the Establishment Of Schefferville The Creatio...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Closure Of Scheffervillementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The town resembles many other Canadian Indigenous communities. Here, mining is less present in the community space, but it is still in people's minds (Rodon et al, 2021).…”

Section: Post-extraction Future Visions During the Mining Boommentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Post-extraction Future Visions During the Mining Boommentioning

confidence: 99%

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Mining Towns in Transition

Malmgren¹,

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Persson³

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Resource Extraction and Arctic Communities

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“…They thought it might be an effective way to promote cooperation between transitioning towns and adjacent communities. Rodon et al (2021) explored the impact of past closure and dislocation events in Quebec-Labrador mining area on the contemporary industrial cycle from the conceptual perspective of political economics. They found the impacts of different regions were different according to the regional differences of local population, economy, and settlement history.…”

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Analyzing the influence of publishing a list of resource-exhausted city with spatial difference-in-differences model: evidence from city-level data in China.

Peng

2022

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Promoting the carbon efficiency is an accepted topic in China’s sustainable development against the background of carbon neutrality. After the State Council announced 69 resource-exhausted cities, Chinese government has strengthened policy and funds support to set up a long-term mechanism of sustainable development. This paper utilizes a spatial difference-in-differences (SDID) method to investigate the policy effect in those resource-exhausted cities and their neighboring cities, with city-level data during 2004–2016. Then we find a positive feedback of supporting policy on carbon performance in both local regions and adjacent regions. Furthermore, we find that wage distortion could account for carbon performance improvement. Our results could provide evidence and implications for realizing the low-carbon economy in China.

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