I just had a thought about Chief Elizabeth Atlookan, Eabametoong.

The chief that keeps "feeling", like she is being ingored after expecting on going continual funding with no visible progress.

The terms of chief from what I see are two years and it looks like she'll be facing elections this June if the link below can be relied upon.

http://www.fng.ca/index.php?mod=news&show=34

Could be why the Gov't is fed up and waiting to deal with a new chief. I can't imagine the folks on the reserve are too pleased with her squishing any potentional employment.

She may have thought she did a great deed in the Landore case but at the end of the day the prospect of any employment there is gone. And Landore is working well at other locations with First Nation agreements.

And no progress at all on the ROF negotations...just more demands for consultations and funding.

Looks to me like there may be a price to be paid during Eabametoong elections in June.

Knowing that Trudeau, Ford, Rickford etc were at PDAC ...if she "felt" like she was being ignored she should have shown up there and made that point very vocal...like her big Ryerson Blitz in November with ......arts students present??

Looks like the community will have their opportunity to voice their opinion in June of this year.

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Since the November staging by Eabametoong and Neskantanga...Neskantaga has been very quiet

Did Moonias go to PDAC? And the water treatment plant venture...did not go so..well.

Moonias had expectations of a finish date for the plant and it didn't work out too well and he cancelled the contract with Kingdom construction and sent them packing.

Kingdom had done many many many projects like this and they seem to do a great job....with others.

When you read the issues some were logistic related. Certain equipment is needed to do certain work and since there are no all season roads up there....if needed equipment needs to be split up into pieces and flown in and then reassembled on site....problems can arise.

In the Neskantaga case, a cement mixer bought by the gov't and reassembled had issues as one example. I guess the reserve learned that it is much harder to do stuff on a schedule when there is limited ability for travel.

I notice their elections are ...this  March according to this link.

http://search.211north.ca/record/TBC0273