Edgy,

I  re-posted this yesterday, Please re-read the last paragraph...where Noront states "It doesn't matter to us on the route..we'll use what gets constructed."

"After years of industry and First Nations consultation, plus independent engineering analysis on corridor studies, Coutts said it’s high time the government released a regional infrastructure plan.

“Let’s get something on the table,” he said, “and let’s get the appropriate people to fine-tune it.”

To expedite the process, Coutts said they’ve offered the province their environmental assessment data for an east-west road to the Ring of Fire, along with the files for a north-south corridor that they inherited from Cliffs Natural Resources when they acquired their chromite deposits in 2015.

“It doesn’t matter to us (on the route). We’ll use what gets constructed. It’s ultimately a question of the First Nations and the province settling on something.”

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Noront picked the east west route because it is what the FN's wanted at the time.

But as you can see ...they don't care what road as long as there is a road.

Noront handed over the EA's on both the east west route and the north south route to the gov't

At the end of may of this year this was in the news:

http://www.timminspress.com/2017/05/25/premier-pushing-for-quick-action-on-ring-of-fire-project

“I said now is the time to make a decision. So we are working again to come to a consensus with the Matawa First Nations on the route and how we would invest.

If we can’t come to a consensus within the regional framework, then we are going to move very soon to begin to work with individual communities that want to work with us and get started,” Wynne said.

“We need to get shovels in the ground. We need to be investing in that infrastructure, because the companies want some certainty that that infrastructure is going to happen. And we’re going to move ahead with that,” she continued.

The Daily Press asked the premier if she could pin down a date for when this would happen.

“I wish I could give you a date, but I have said earlier this week that we’re talking about weeks, not months, you know. We need to move ahead and at least get to the point where we can say, yeah, we are going ahead with a consensus or we are going to work with individual communities. That’s what I’d like to be able to say in the very near future,” said Wynne.

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Edgy, is Marten Falls an individual community that wants to work with the gov't and wants to get started? The picture with the grouping and the event in Thunder Bay for 2 days sure looked that way. As well as the comment from a dept at matawa FN.