MPP Addresses ELA Concerns In Legislature

Talks continue about the future of the Experimental Lakes Area, west of Vermilion Bay.
In the legislature, Kenora Rainy River MPP Sarah Campbell asked the government why scientists have not been allowed back into the ELA.
Campbell says the government website still claims that important science will continue, but researchers aren’t being allowed in to do their work.
Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Laurel Broten says the governmental is still working on a deal with the International Institute for Sustainable Development to take over the facility.
Broten says the province does understand the urgency surrounding the ELA and is working as fast as it can to re-open the research centre.