Attawapiskat group taking feds to court over Ring of Fire road that will cause irreversible harm to environment and Indigenous way of life

By Anushka Yadav, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Pointer “We’re not protesters. We’re protectors.” That’s what Michel Koostachin, founder of grassroots group, the Friends of the Attawapiskat River, declared as he launched the first legal challenge against a Ring of Fire access road, days after the federal government approved the project in the “public interest” despite its own impact assessment warning it would cause “irreversible” harm to the environment and Indigenous ways of life.