#2 - Thunder Bay

Geography

Apr 13 2024

Notes column

a) Flooding of waterfront areas - Lake Superior

b) Mining, lumber, fur, and fish

c) ->Rena Viehbeck - Cimate Adaption Coordinator, City of Thunder Bay

-> Ellen Mortfield - Executive Director, EcoSuperior

-> Robert Stewart - Lakehead University

d) -> Access to abundant resources, especially clean water that comes from Lake Superior

-> "It's the lifeblood of this region." -Robert

-> "It's our drinking water source, it's our recreation source, it's our tourism draw, -the lake is everything to us." -Ellen

e) Yes

f) Yes, but not related to climate change.

g) ->Rena Viehbeck - Cimate Adaption Coordinator, City of Thunder Bay

-> Ellen Mortfield - Executive Director, EcoSuperior

-> Robert Stewart - Lakehead University

h) -> A city in Ontario

-> Located near Lake Superior

i) Risk of climate change: Flooding

j) Lake Superior is the most important lake in Thunder Bay

Summary

Thunder Bay is abundant in natural resources such as water, metal ores, fish, and lumber.

Thunder Bay is a city in Ontario.

An evidence of climate change that has taken place in Thunder Bay is flooding, especially around Lake Superior.

Cue column

a) What evidence of climate change is there in the location you choose to study on the Climate Atlas? (peatland fires, migration of fish and animals, flooding of waterfront areas, melting permafrost, communities no longer being able to live off the land as they have in the past, wildfires, lack of biodiversity/wildlife, loss of permafrost)

b) What resources and industries are obtained from this region? What makes these locations ideal for the extraction of these resources? Was the land in your region ever expropriated for these resources?

c) Who are the environmental stewards in your region?

d) What is the community's (people who are currently living on the land) relationship with the land they live on?

e) Does the area have clean drinking water, food and energy security?

f) Has the community been in the media lately?

g) Who are the change makers/activists in the community? What activism have they participated in? How long have they been working on creating positive change?

h) What is where?

i) Why there?

j) Why care?