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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
Natural Resources committee Thank you.
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