New Quebec mining-industry driven website launched to engage residents
TORONTO (miningweekly.com) – The communications fund of the Quebec mining industry, Minalliance, on Tuesday launched MinesQC.com, an online dialogue and informational platform aimed at the general public to bring together the players and stakeholders of Quebec's mining industry.
Through the website, billed as a North American first, the mining industry seeks to inform and engage in dialogue with citizens to empower them to form their own opinions about the industry and its contribution to Quebec's sustainable development.
According to the provincial mining industry's main spokespersons, Valérie Fillion of the Quebec Mineral Exploration Association and Josée Méthot of the Quebec Mining Association, this platform is "a highly relevant tool that will allow the general public to dispel the myths surrounding the industry and its contribution to a better quality of life".
On the ground, it is critical for mining companies to develop and embed consultation mechanisms, Norton Rose Fulbright’s associate Michael Torrance recently told Mining Weekly Online.
Mining companies are often wary of social media, forgetting that the platform can enable companies to highlight their objectives, clarify the real narrative of their actions and help stop the spread of supposition and rumour.
New Millennium Iron executive vice chairperson Dean Journeaux said the website is a groundbreaking project. “It's the first web platform for industry-wide dialogue and information that allows completely transparent interaction with the public. Stakeholders are invited to participate,” he said.
The website is meant to be an open forum for questions, answers, information, and conversations about the Quebec mining industry.
All interested stakeholders who have questions about the mining process, from exploration to rehabilitation, or who have points of view on the social, environmental, and economic aspects of the Quebec mining industry, were invited to express themselves and consult the site's content.
Questions and comments would be forwarded to industry representatives, researchers and independent experts who would provide Quebecers with documented and transparent answers.
HEC Montreal associate professor Emmanuel Raufflet explained that given the importance of the mining sector for the Quebec economy, this was a welcome initiative.
“Its emphasis on dialogue sends a strong message of the sector's openness. It's the chance to discuss the major issues that bind the sector, local communities, and Quebec as whole,” Raufflet said.
Minalliance's executive director Isabelle Poirier added that MinesQC.com is a knowledge, expertise, and competency network established to facilitate listening, as well as exchanges between citizens and the mining industry.
“Universities, federal and provincial government agencies, interest groups, associations, as well as industry professionals from exploration to production, including suppliers of goods and services, are eager to participate in dialogue in the digital space,” she said.
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