I want to take issue with your posting Funkey about Alan Coutts and the road.

It is not Noront's business to build a road to the Ring of Fire. For one, Noront is a mining company.
Second, it is the responsibility of Ontario government to build a road to the Ring. More so that this road is not to be a private one but for use not only by all companies with interest in the Ring BUT Also all near by communities to a road.

Be cognisant that the road is not to be a temporary utility but a community building one for the future for all.
By definition roads, barring some rare exceptions, are a provincial responsibility.

Finally, Noront made and paid for for a feasibility study and made it available to all. It did not have to do it. That study should have been done by the province with consultation with miners and communities.
I commend Noront for doing the study, who mind you, it was also self serving. It was done with the hope of speeding up the process. Who would have known that it helped little or none. Noront has done all it could to further development, and more.

No further road studies were or are needed. To repeat the process is just political waste of time, money and effort.
Do not put the blame on Coutts and Noront as a whole. Imho, it is inappropriate.

Yes I still have respect for your posts, just pointing out that you ran out into the woods with this one, Ed.