This is the position of someone who hasn't looked closely at the logistics of shipping chromite

"alienated KWG from the ROF players. We must remember that it was KWG that held up the progress in the NS road and perhaps blame has been attached to them by more than just the Libs..Rickford said at one point that it wasn't necessary for the easement request to go to the commission..implying that the Libs could have simply designated the road as "common use" and tied up KWG in the courts for a long time if challenged"

.. A road, whether private, public, east-west or north-south, will not allow any company to ship chromite from the ROF. Too expensive per ton shipped, and possible volume too low, unless this is a large & private ore truck only road.

Yes, KWG blocked CLF from building this, and from riding rough-shod over the long established legal right to first priority to claim holders in any dispute about surface use of land held by a mineral claim. CLF, remember, didn't just want to build across KWG claims, they wanted to build EXACTLY along the surveyed and studied narrow line proposed by KWG for their own transport route.

Well done, otherwise we taxpayers would now be paying to build just this for the sole benefit of CLF. The FNs would be blockading and protesting, as they would by now have awoken to the fact that this wouldn't allow them road access.

KWG found a pipeline to be most cost effective to ship ore, though this wouldn't benefit others in the area to the extent a railline would. As I understand matters, they got tired of trying to get Govt & others to join together on a rail project, and narrowed their focus (like others) to only their own narrow interests, for which a pipeline will suffice.

This line would best be built along the esker, exactly where CLF's private road was intending to be laid, along the narrow corridor already surveyed by KWG. If CLF had managed to bamboozle Govt into helping or even completely building their road, this wouldn't have been built with any concern for any pipeline alongside. If I read CLF correctly, they would have done everything possible to prevent any other use of the corridor, whether for another company's pipeline or a small public use road. In a similar situation near one of their iron mines in the USA they said their private road would allow public use, while in practice this wasn't the case.

The latest rail proposal suggests a route which is going to be quite difficult & expensive to buiild, across muskeg rather than the firmer esker.

Sure, some company can buy CLFs assets, and will then need a method of shipping chromite, either a railway or a pipeline. That can only benefit KWG and prospects for the B.H. project.