Restructuring overlooks important environmental legacy: critics Laurentian is cutting environmental science, environmental studies, ecology and restoration biology programs as it works to balance its books Author of the article: Hugh Kruzel For The Sudbury Star Publishing date: Apr 29, 2021 • 5 hours ago • 5 minute read • Professors Peter Beckett (left) and Graham Speirs from Laurentian University are pioneers within Sudbury's regreening efforts. With the Superstack in the background, they presented to a Canadian Ecology Centre's mining teachers tour in September of last year. Photo by Bill Steer Article content Sudbury has garnered a reputation around the world as a community that knows how to recover an environment degraded by mining and smelting operations.