KWG Longs,

As per my earlier post, below please find the response from the MNR to my email asking for clarification on the impact of McGuinty's resignation and prorogue of the provincial legislature on the easeemnt hearings between CCC and Cliffs.

Keep Digging

Dear Sir:

Further to your email below, I have spoken with the Mining and Lands Commissioner and she has advised that the work of the Ministry will continue.

Once the Commissioner and the Deputy Mining and Lands Commissioner have heard the merits and depending on the outcome:

(a) If the surface rights application is granted, there will have to be an Environmental Assessment associated with the Public Lands application.

(b) If the access/surface rights is not granted, at some point the mining claim holder will likely have to submit to an Environmental Assessment process as they will require a permit to build their railway.

In any event, the time lines are such that things will probably be settled politically before this moves forward within MNR.

Office of the Mining and Lands Commissioner

700 Bay St., 24th Fl., Box 330

Toronto, OntarioM5G 1Z6