The main concerns that our people have are the potential environmental impacts that we'll have on the water, firstly, because of where it's located, the watershed that it's affecting. We don't know what these rare earths can do to the water yet. We don't have a lot of study on that. That's the main concern, but we do have a lot of other concerns, like the traditional use of the land. What is that going to be for our future generations, because it's so central to where our traditional land is? This whole project is leaving a major footprint on our territory.
For support from the federal government, there has been no support. The lack of consultation from the government is very clear, and we need resources to be able to address this because it's so unknown to us as a first nations community, let alone the Canadian government. There definitely has to be support from the federal government in this project because it's so new to Canada.