well there ya go..noront was having meetings with fn and mayor hobbs about the possibility of them building a smelter here in thunder bay out on the fn mission and i think it was partially funded by fn ...thats what the big deal was about upgrading the thunder bay power plant to natural gas from coal as it is theres a temporary fix switching it to bio mass but the city is demanding a full scale overhaul to natural gas...liberal govt. beating around the bush trying not to commit to it. i think they were up to there eyebrows in a cliffs deal when the surface rights decision went wrong on them. i think noronts going to be the e/w king of the ring for now with nickle...gl....ken