from 96klit
His approach is narrow minded, with only his local bands getting all the benefits
1) Attawapiskat doesn't have a deep sea port. Who's going to pay for that.
2) Having a deep sea port means you're shipping all resources out of the Country for processing....not good, won't happen.
Or maybe his idea was to extend Noront's Pickle Lake-ROF road the what, 2-300 km to Attawapiskat, then ship the ore/partially processed ore/partially smelted iron-chromium, whatever, to Moosonee and onto the rail line from there. So then you're transfering the cost of building a Nakina-ROF railway to an extra road and upgrading ports. Anyone have an idea how much it would cost to make Attawapiskat and Moosonee ship-worthy? Also I'm assuming there's a winter road to follow from Webique to Attawapiskat just like from Pickle Lake to Webique -- anyone know if that's true?
Alex
Alex