Mr. John Rafferty (Thunder Bay—Rainy River, NDP):
Mr. Hanson, we've heard about roads. We've heard about transportation, electrical lines and so on, east-west and north-south. Can I ask you why Hudson Bay was not considered as a viable route for shipping?
Mr. Wes Hanson:
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 looking at shipping 150,000 tons of concentrate a year. We could do that easily through a combination of a concentrate pipeline and a permanent road.
Wes Hanson, Noront, testfying on February 16, 2012, 41st PARLIAMENT, 1st SESSION Standing Committee on Natural Resources
