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Natural Resources committee  Innovation, I think, is the key. We have an opportunity here to develop mines that are probably the most technologically innovative mines in the world. That will attract young people and that will bring them into the northwestern Ontario region.

February 16th, 2012Committee meeting

Wes Hanson

Natural Resources committee  Of course not.

February 16th, 2012Committee meeting

Wes Hanson

Natural Resources committee  The development of infrastructure is critical. It's absolutely something that has to happen. Natural Resources Canada estimates that exploration costs for a remote site are 10 times what they are for a site that's beside a road. If we're truly going to see the potential of nort

February 16th, 2012Committee meeting

Wes Hanson

Natural Resources committee  Our original plan, basically, is to establish a diesel generating station close to the community of Webequie, bringing in a power line from that point and using diesel-generated power. Hopefully that's a first nations business that the community of Webequie and some of the other

February 16th, 2012Committee meeting

Wes Hanson

Natural Resources committee  Concerning the permitting, we're basically using the timelines that the various government agencies are giving us. One of the advantages we do have is not so much that it's underground—well, that's part of the benefit, so you're not creating a big hole in the sponge—but that we'r

February 16th, 2012Committee meeting

Wes Hanson

Natural Resources committee  We have not. Noront has not as yet. We're starting to make those inroads again. You have to remember that this is an early stage in the development. I would think that the major projects group would be the group that would get involved once we have completed our feasibility study

February 16th, 2012Committee meeting

Wes Hanson

Natural Resources committee  It's a timing issue for us.

February 16th, 2012Committee meeting

Wes Hanson

Natural Resources committee  Hopefully it will be construction. Once the permits are in place, we'd start construction of the roads and the airstrips and the underground facilities that we're looking to build. Again, Noront's plan is an all-underground one. We're hopeful that this will become a model mine

February 16th, 2012Committee meeting

Wes Hanson

Natural Resources committee  We have a lot of ideas. Briefly, we'll separate the mine from the processing facilities for ferrochrome. For the mine site itself, you need about 20 megawatts of power, and you can easily manage that with diesel generators and probably augment it with some sort of photovoltaic ce

February 16th, 2012Committee meeting

Wes Hanson

Natural Resources committee  Sure. It has to involve the first nations. You have to get the traditional knowledge of the first nations communities on whose land you're going to work, but that being said, that process has to be driven by experts, such as environmental experts. I understand Chief Moonias' poin

February 16th, 2012Committee meeting

Wes Hanson

February 16th, 2012Committee meeting

Wes Hanson

Natural Resources committee  For the nickel mine itself, probably somewhere in the range of 200 to 300, and during the construction phase, probably double that.

February 16th, 2012Committee meeting

Wes Hanson

Natural Resources committee  It will be a mixture of trades, skilled labour, and unskilled labour. It will be 60% unskilled labour, 20% skilled labour, and 20% professional.

February 16th, 2012Committee meeting

Wes Hanson

Natural Resources committee  Basically our analysis indicated that James Bay was too shallow to accept vessels of sufficient draft to be able to reduce shipping costs dramatically. Noront's situation is a bit different from that of Cliffs and some of the other companies in the Ring of Fire. We're only looki

February 16th, 2012Committee meeting

Wes Hanson

Natural Resources committee  We would certainly consider those areas if we were building our own ferrochrome facility, but there's already smelter capacity available in Sudbury for nickel, which is what we're producing, so it's less of a footprint.

February 16th, 2012Committee meeting

Wes Hanson