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'''Adams Mine''' is an [[abandoned mine|abandoned]] [[open pit mining|open pit]] [[iron ore]] mine located in the [[Boston Township, Ontario|Boston Township]] of the [[District of Timiskaming]], ((convert|11|km|mi|abbr=on)) south of [[Kirkland Lake]] in the [[Provinces and territories of Canada|Canadian province]] of [[Ontario]]. It is situated<ref>((Cite web |title=Adams Iron Mine information and photos |url=https://www.aditnow.co.uk/Mines/Adams-Iron-Mine_14702/ |access-date=2023-01-16 |website=www.aditnow.co.uk))</ref> on the [[Canadian Shield]].

== History ==

The mine was originally discovered in 1906 however there was little interest in iron ore as a result of the discovery of gold in the Porcupine and Kirkland Lake regions. The site saw renewed interest in the second half of the 1950s and was subsequently developed by the Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania with first production in 1964. The Jones and Laughlin company operated the mine until 1971 when it was sold to Dofasco Steel of Hamilton Ontario. The mine was operated in tandem with the Dofasco owned Sherman Mine. The mine closed in 1990<ref>((Cite web |title=Adam's Mine - Kirkland Lake, Ontario |url=https://www.ontarioabandonedplaces.com/ontario/kirkland-lake/adams-mine |access-date=2023-01-16 |website=Ontario Abandoned Places |language=en))</ref> when the economically retrievable ore reserves were exhausted. The closure also made the Sherman Mine uneconomic and it was also closed. The closure of the two mines in the Timiskaming District along with the resultant job losses left the region in economic hardship from which it has never fully recovered. Perched at one of the highest elevation points in the region, the mine stretched over ((convert|4000|acre|km2)) and had six pits, the largest measuring over ((convert|1.6|km|mi|abbr=on)) in length and the deepest being 183&nbsp;m (600&nbsp;ft), placing it below the water table; it is currently half filled with water.

Over 27 years of mining, the pits sustained numerous blasts daily, which some geologists claim have added to natural faults in the rocks. Other geologists and hydrogeologists have claimed that the site is well-situated for hydraulic containment (i.e. water flows in, but doesn't leach into surrounding groundwater or surface water systems).

There are significant [[tailings]] left from the manufacture of ore concentrate at the site. The [[Ontario Northland Railway]] operated a line into the Adams Mine facility during its years of operation.

The mine is currently owned by an American investor named Vito Gallo,<ref name="Gallo Claim">((cite web |last1=Canada |first1=Global Affairs |title=V. G. Gallo v. Government of Canada |url=https://www.international.gc.ca/trade-agreements-accords-commerciaux/topics-domaines/disp-diff/gallo.aspx?lang=eng |website=Global Affairs Canada |accessdate=January 21, 2020 |date=December 19, 2017))</ref> through a number company incorporated in Ontario, and is the subject of a NAFTA Chapter 11 arbitration between Gallo, on behalf of the numbered company, and the Government of Canada.  The claim is that the Government of Ontario failed to pay proper compensation when it passed legislation that revoked the permits that it had previously granted for the site to be operated as a landfill.

==Landfill proposal==
Before the mine had shut production in the early 1990s, [[waste management]] planners from the [[Metropolitan Toronto|Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto]] were examining its potential for a massive [[landfill]], with [[waste]] to be shipped north in sealed intermodal shipping containers by [[Canadian National Railway|CN]] and Ontario Northland on a ((convert|700|km|mi|abbr=on)) route. It would be a [[municipal solid waste]] (MSW) facility on fractured bedrock using hydraulic containment and no [[landfill liner]].<ref name="description">((Cite web
  | url = http://www.ene.gov.on.ca/envision/techdocs/4212e.htm
  | title = Final Report East Taro Landfill
  | date = October 2000
  | publisher = [[Ministry of the Environment (Ontario)|Ministry of the Environment]], [[Government of Ontario]]
  | accessdate = 2010-03-31
))</ref>

Proponents of the landfill plan pointed to its potential for spurring economic development in Kirkland Lake's struggling economy, while opponents pointed to environmental concerns such as the pit's unstable rock walls, which could potentially leach contaminants into the local [[groundwater]] supply.

The original landfill proposal considering the Adams Mine for [[Toronto]]'s garbage can be traced to 1989. The following year, the government of [[Metro Toronto]] selected the Adams Mine as the preferred site for replacing the [[Keele Valley Landfill]] in [[Vaughan, Ontario|Vaughan]] which was rapidly reaching capacity. On 2 April 1991, [[Ruth Grier]], then provincial [[Ministry of the Environment (Ontario)|Minister of the Environment]], stated that the provincial government would not allow Toronto to send its garbage to the Adams Mine.<ref name="provreject">((cite news
  | url = https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/461770911.html?FMT=ABS
  | title = Burying taxpayers under pile of NDP garbage
  | last = Lewis Stein
  | first = Davie
  | newspaper = Toronto Star
  | date = 5 April 1991
  | accessdate = 2010-03-30
  | page = A.23
))</ref> In 1995, Metro Toronto began a formal assessment, and the project passed all environmental tests and assessments.  The project was rejected at the final vote, in December 1996, to extend the Toronto option on the ownership of the mine because of erroneous information presented by Jack Layton in which he cited the cumulative cost of the project rather than the year by year costs.  At the same vote, the Chair, Alan Tonks also changed his position from support of the project to voting against.  The final vote was 19–13 against the proposal to extend Toronto's option to use the site.  This vote eventually led to Toronto shipping garbage to the US.

In 1996, the mine's owner, Notre Development,<ref>((Cite web |title=Adam's Mine - Kirkland Lake, Ontario |url=https://www.ontarioabandonedplaces.com/ontario/kirkland-lake/adams-mine |access-date=2023-01-16 |website=Ontario Abandoned Places |language=en))</ref> announced plans to revive the Adams Mine proposal through the private sector. Later the same year, the [[Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario|Progressive Conservative]] government of [[Mike Harris]] made significant changes to the province's Environmental Assessment Act - this resulted in dropping the requirements for a [[needs assessment]] and investigation of alternatives to developing a landfill. Technically, this was irrelevant to the Adams Mine proposal as it had already passed all assessments requested of the project.  This gave the provincial government the sole authority to impose time and service limits on environmental assessments.

Investors involved in Notre Development included [[North Bay, Ontario|North Bay]] businessman Gord McGuinty.  Peter Minogue, Harris' best friend whose wife was Harris' local campaign manager, is often mentioned as being involved with Notre but there is no evidence that he ever was.

Notre Development's 1996 proposal involved a consortium that was known as "Rail Cycle North"; this included the mine's owner, Notre Development, along with waste management companies [[Canadian Waste Services]] and [[Miller Waste Services]], and [[Ontario Northland Railway]] and [[Canadian National Railway|CN]].

On December 16, 1997, the provincial Ministry of the Environment permitted only a limited Environmental Assessment Board hearing on the site's [[hydraulic]] containment system. Heavy opposition was expressed in the hearings, but on June 19, 1998, the EAB approved the project. The opponents filed an appeal with the [[Executive Council of Ontario|provincial cabinet]], which was subsequently rejected that August. An appeal was then filed for a judicial review. In July 1999, that appeal was rejected by the Divisional Court of Ontario and was similarly rejected by the [[Court of Appeal for Ontario]] in October of that year.

At the same time, opponents focused on lobbying the recently amalgamated city of [[Toronto]] to not accept the Rail Cycle North proposal. On August 3, 2000, [[Toronto City Council]] voted to approve the plan to transport the city's waste to Adams Mine. However, due to the volume of community opposition, council reviewed the issue and voted the proposal down that October. Toronto subsequently pursued a proposal to have its garbage shipped to the [[Carleton Farms Landfill]] site in [[Michigan]], since the [[Keele Valley Landfill]], as expected, had reached full capacity.

==Aftermath==
((NPOV section|date=July 2014))
((outdated section|date=July 2014))

In that fall's municipal elections, Adams Mine supporter Bill Enouy was elected mayor of Kirkland Lake.

In 2001, the Harris government attempted to engineer a campaign((Citation needed|date=December 2010)) of opposition among the [[Western Ontario]] communities affected by the Michigan deal, which was seeing hundreds of truckloads of garbage passing on [[Highway 401 (Ontario)|Highway 401]] daily; the intent was to force the city of Toronto back into Rail Cycle North's proposal for a landfill using the Adams Mine. The provincial government's campaign included a letter from Michigan Governor [[John Engler]] which expressed his state's opposition to accepting Toronto's garbage and explicitly supported the Rail Cycle North proposal, despite the fact that this was perceived as being at odds with Engler's usual positions on waste management. Staffers in Engler's office eventually revealed that the letter had been written at Premier Harris' request((Citation needed|date=December 2010)).

From 2001 to 2003, Notre Development and the Rail Cycle North consortium continued to pursue avenues to revive the landfill proposal.

In 2003, the [[Ontario Liberal Party]], led by [[Dalton McGuinty]], won the [[2003 Ontario general election|provincial election]] and on April 5, 2004, provincial [[Ministry of Natural Resources (Ontario)|Minister of Natural Resources]] [[David Ramsay (Ontario politician)|David Ramsay]] and [[Ministry of the Environment (Ontario)|Minister of the Environment]] [[Leona Dombrowsky]] introduced legislation which revoked all certificates and permits related to the Adams Mine proposal. This had the effect of permanently killing the 1996 plan.

[[Charlie Angus]], a local musician and author, was one of the community leaders who organized the campaign against the Adams Mine proposal. He subsequently ran for political office, and was elected to [[Parliament of Canada|Parliament]] in the [[2004 Canadian federal election|2004 federal election]].

Toronto continued to export its trash to Michigan until 2006, causing a great deal of controversy for southern Ontario and Michigan communities which endure the transport of waste through their communities. Critics continue to point out that Toronto's exporting plan avoids forcing the city and region to come to terms with the waste its citizens generate, however there appears to be little political will to reduce consumption and bring about a regional waste management strategy which will avoid the necessity to export to distant landfills.

The shipping of garbage to Michigan briefly became an issue in the [[2004 United States presidential election]] when [[John Kerry]], on a campaign stop in Michigan, promised to ban the import of Canadian garbage if he was elected. In September, 2005, the Michigan state legislature voted almost unanimously against accepting Toronto's garbage.

=="Trash of the Titans"==
During [[Toronto City Council]] deliberations over the waste site proposal, then-councillors [[Jack Layton]] and [[Olivia Chow]] surprised their council colleagues by playing ''[[The Simpsons]]'' 200th episode, "[[Trash of the Titans]]", in which the comically inept [[Homer Simpson]] becomes sanitation commissioner of [[Springfield (The Simpsons)|Springfield]] and ends up shoving trash from his own and many other communities into a mine, to deleterious effect. "It was absolutely stunning," Layton later told ''[[The Globe and Mail]]''. "It was so accurate to what was going on."<ref>((cite news |last1=Caldwell |first1=Rebecca |last2=Shoalts |first2=David |title=My favourite episode |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/my-favourite-episode/article1333766/ |accessdate=January 21, 2020 |work=The Globe and Mail |date=February 1, 2003))</ref>

==See also==
*[[List of mines in Ontario]]

==References==
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[[Category:1963 establishments in Ontario]]
[[Category:1990 disestablishments in Ontario]]
[[Category:Geography of Timiskaming District]]
[[Category:Iron mines in Canada]]
[[Category:Kirkland Lake]]
[[Category:Landfills in Canada]]
[[Category:Mines in Northern Ontario]]
[[Category:Municipal government of Toronto]]
[[Category:Open-pit mines]]
[[Category:Politics of Northern Ontario]]
[[Category:Surface mines in Canada]]

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