{"id":70631,"date":"2026-03-04T21:57:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/03\/04\/ontario-cuts-mining-permit-timelines-by-50-lecce-says\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T21:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:57:17","slug":"ontario-cuts-mining-permit-timelines-by-50-lecce-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/03\/04\/ontario-cuts-mining-permit-timelines-by-50-lecce-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario cuts mining permit timelines by 50%, Lecce says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<br \/><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ontario cuts mining permit timelines by 50%: minister\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/moTgZglRvAs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> Ontario\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>                         Energy and Mines Minister, <\/p>\n<p>                        Stephen Lecce<\/p>\n<p>                        , talks to the Financial Post\u2019s Larysa Harapyn on the floor of the <\/p>\n<p>                        Prospectors &amp; Developers Association of Canada<\/p>\n<p>                         (PDAC) convention in Toronto about what the province is doing to <\/p>\n<p>                        encourage the industry<\/p>\n<p>                        . <\/p>\n<ul class=\"related_links\">\n<li>Danielle Smith expects foreign investment to play a role in funding a new pipeline<\/li>\n<li>How-to advice on everything from mortgages to portfolios: FP Video<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<br \/>Ontario cuts mining permit timelines by 50%, Lecce says<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-03-04 21:57:17<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario\u2019s Energy and Mines Minister, Stephen Lecce , talks to the Financial Post\u2019s Larysa Harapyn on the floor of the Prospectors &amp; Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention in Toronto&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0305-mg-miners.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/70632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}