According to researcher Nadia Mykytczuk, Sudbury is ready to play a leading part in the global story about electric vehicles .
That includes its decades-long regreening project, which transformed Sudbury’s barren, moon-like landscape into a much greener environment, and the industrial push to meet emissions reductions in the 1970s. Her research comes at a pivotal time, as the industry scours the globe looking for places to source these minerals.
In an opinion piece published on Sudbury.com, Mykytczuk said it was time for a new approach, and that overcoming devastation is something Sudbury is well known for. Mykytczuk was also able to write a feasibility study outlining the benefits of building a $17.3-million, 45,000-square-foot centre for mine waste biotechnology, touting it as an “essential piece of the puzzle” in the EV battery production game.“And if we want to advance, scale up and commercialize technologies that can be used at an industrial scale, we actually need the facility to be able to do that.