Greasemonkies Thank You for that posting and I have a question, Did you post it with following thought in mind or purely by accident?
The thought being:
We have an investor in Noront in the name of Bao steel and they are Chinese with pressumed interest of securing a source of supply of needed metals. The closest and easiest path to deliver those metals to China is of course through the North-West passage.
By now all of you must know where I am going.
Should we have the railway built to James Bay, what ever port be it at Moosonee or Fort Albany, the door would be open for the shortest passage to China. I suspect Bao would be most in favour with the Mushkegowuk/TGR proposal.

Therefore GM your post is an eye opener to a more competive alternative which without the passage to China would have difficulty to get wings.

Two competitive bids is what we need to get things moving, other wise this could stagnate until who knows when.

Cheers. ed.