Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to announce Thursday a list of several “nation-building projects” that the federal government is fast-tracking.

And one of them is a proposed nickel mine in northern Ontario.

CBC News has learned that the Crawford open pit, which Canada Nickel Company is planning off Highway 655 between Timmins and Cochrane, is going to be added to the list.

Federal Energy and Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson is heading to Timmins for the announcement, but spent Wednesday meeting with mining officials, politicians, and Indigenous leaders in Sudbury.

“Why different projects might make the list is that they are bringing a new technology, a new way of doing things that is a lower carbon method, or there could be some significance to the end product, something to do

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