This is an excerpt from an older article. Coutts is explaining that all we need is the ToR to move forward. Everything is falling into place! ----Alan Coutts wants the province to give Noront the environmental approval it needs to start on its mine and all-weather road while an "over-arching" framework agreement is being negotiated with First Nations about resource sharing and related issues. Noront isn't asking for special treatment, said its president and chief executive officer during a visit to Sudbury. It just wants the province to approve Noront's terms of reference for the environmental assessment it submitted 2 1/2 years ago so it can keep and attract investors, reach impact benefit agreements with three First Nations near Eagle's Nest and start mining ore. Coutts was in Sudbury at the invitation of the Greater Sudbury Chamber of Commerce Ring of Fire Task Force to talk about the status of Noront's project, why it is stalled and what he believes must be done to move it forward. Coutts' message to the provincial government is his company could begin developing Eagle's Nest following existing mining legislation, "and do it in the spirit of the framework agreement."----