‘This is sacred’: the fight against a massive frac sand mine in Manitoba | The Narwhal
No federal review to remove 1.2 million tonnes of sand each year for 54 years
Camp Morning Star was
erected three months before Canadian Premium Sand received provincial
approval to extract and process 1.2 million tonnes of silica sand —
enough to fill 7,228 beach volleyball courts — every year from the Seymourville deposit near the Hollow Water First Nation, located 160 kilometres north of Winnipeg.
If built, the mine would operate 24/7 for
54 years, mining an average of five hectares each year, impacting a
total 353 hectares over the life of the project — the rough equivalent
to 654 football fields — to service fracking operations in Alberta,
British Columbia and North Dakota.