Vermilion River – Our grandchildren’s future with water!
ORA’s recommendations call for enforceable public-participation standards, clear cumulative-effects gatekeeping, transparent reasons for any federal withdrawal, Indigenous-led consultation processes, and a national commitment to freshwater conservation and resilience. While ORA’s work spans mining (including Ring of Fire), hydropower, wastewater-treatment facilities, and dam-safety issues, these examples illustrate, rather than shift, the focus to the urgent need for fair, transparent, science-based federal oversight.