The group opposing the location of a portion of the Waasigan power-line project over claims of potential environmental degradation says it will re-direct its focus to another federal ministry.

Brant Muir, a spokesman for the Upper Shebandowan Lake campers group, said on Monday he only recently learned that concerns about potential "deleterious substances" caused by the power line should be sent to Environment and Climate Change Canada.

Muir said he would be reaching out to that department as early as Monday.

The group had previously appealed to the federal department of Fisheries and Ocean (DFO), after Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources upheld a a decision to allow Hydro One to build the line near the lake as long as mitigation measures were implemented.

Though Fisheries and Ocean

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