Cashing in on the Ring of Fire: Its "value" to Ontario's EV Market & Supply Chain, A Life Cycle assessment of the Mining Sector

The climate is changing, largely in part due to anthropogenic behaviour — the use of fossil fuels. The paper explores one of the largest contributors to global carbon emissions: the transportation sector and the shift towards electrification. However, rather than the more typical approach taken to directly evaluate the transportation sector, this paper opted for a rather unique approach by beginning the evaluation of emissions from the mining sector, where the commodities for electric vehicles are largely sourced. After evaluating two interdependent sectors' emissions using a life cycle assessment approach, the results indicated a net benefit for the mining project in question in Ontario, and more broadly the benefit of bringing an electric vehicle supply chain to Ontario. On the global stage, diversifying the commodities needed for transportation -- a premise considered vital to individual and national economic prosperity -- is necessary to bring about more balanced global stage. If projects similar to those evaluated in this study were done with forethought for the environment, a greener future might just be possible.