Future success will come from cleaner, safer technologies.
Sudbury doesn’t like to think of itself as a mining town. It brings up images of deserted wastelands. Sudbury has spent half a century fighting this impression. But the raison d'être of Sudbury fundamentally remains mining. Think mining in a much broader sense than just Glencore and Vale, stacks, headframes, ore trucks and slag.
Oh, there is no denying significant employment and value in other sectors – government, education, health care, manufacturing and construction – across the Sudbury economy, but subtract mining, and…well, do the math.