About region I agree but it is a road to the Ring with communities along the way.
As for chromite transportation the road has got nothing to do with it. (CT are you not stretching things to excuse them?) Road would only facilitate earlier construction of a mine for chromite. HOWEVER what is the point of a chromite mine without a railway. Surely we all know that chromite will not move without rail. Any other means is impractical, so rail first and then chromite mines.

What we have Now is the E/W road for Noront's nickel ore and three to four communities that would branch off from that road to improve their access to the rest of the province.
I say, what is the difficulty about that?
That road should have been agreed upon five years ago and by now it should exist. Anything other than that is just excuses and incompetence on all sides.

Of course just my opinion, Ed G.