Steve Russell, left, and Marco Chown Oved visit the Big Nickel after visiting Vale’s Creighton Mine in Sudbury, one of the deepest in 91Ô´´ going down to 8,300 feet.
Watch: An electric road trip visiting Ontario’s cleantech future
91Ô´´ Star photographer Steve Russell and climate change reporter Marco Chown Oved went on a road trip through northern Ontario in the dead of winter. It was cold, blizzarding and icy. They travelled 2,300 km during the coldest week of the year. And they did it in an electric vehicle (EV).
Steve Russell, left, and Marco Chown Oved visit the Big Nickel after visiting Vale’s Creighton Mine in Sudbury, one of the deepest in 91Ô´´ going down to 8,300 feet.
From mine to battery to electric vehicle, Ontario’s clean economic future is being built around electric vehicles (EVs). The Star’s climate change reporter Marco Chown Oved and photographer (and EV owner) Steve Russell embarked upon a week-long road trip — in an EV, of course — to visit sites around the province that will figure in this cleantech future. Watch a deep dive into the mines with their short documentary:Â
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