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Regarding Ontario ‘disappointed’ as mining firm suspends project in Ring of Fire
By: Adrian Morrow and Eric Atkins, The Globe and Mail, Nov. 21 2013, Progressive

Conservative MPP Norm Miller never understood the real issues. If he had, he would have asked the right questions;

Why didn't the Ontario government explain to Cliffs at the beginning that they would need to have KWG's approval to use the only direct and economically viable chromite ore corridor before signing an agreement in principle in advance of the Capreol smelter announcement? The MNR did.

Why did the Ontario government agree to fund Cliffs $300M for an all weather road when Cliffs Natural Resourses Inc applied to the Ontario Securities Commission to have its Reporting Issuer Status Revoked By: Cliffs Natural Resources, PR, Feb 1, 2011, which meant that no one really would know the average Cr2O3 grading of Black Thor compared to Big Daddy? Unless Cliffs gave them private resource data.

While the Ontario government was shutting down the ONTC whose railroad plan to the Ring of fire was a rival to Cliffs all-weather private road proposal, why is an application being made for the judicial review of a decision of the Minister of Natural Resources ("MNR") to permit sampling for aggregates by a subsidiary of Cliffs on the CCC claims? The application seeks an order in the nature of certiorari setting aside the decision of MNR dated April 15, 2013 in which MNR authorized the respondent, Cliffs Chromite Ontario Inc. to undertake geotechnical and aggregate testing in respect of lands covered by mining claims held by CCC.

Why was the Ontario government not a party to Cliff's easement case at the OMLC for the Merits where they could have explained that easement was in the public's interest?