Ringer in your posting at 8:11am, near the end of it I saw this and found it funny:
"First Nations are concerns about impact on hunting, trapping and fishing."
So who is going to impact most on those resources?
The very natives of course. They will find it much easier to get to their choice spots and by default probably over do.
On the other hand what over doing may be done is worse?, than the heavy burden of every thing costing them more because there is no road connection.
Convoluted logic, Ed.