KWG Resources has extended an invitation to five First Nations chiefs to join the board of directors of its subsidiary company, Canada Chrome Corp.
The Montreal miner is edging forward with plans to build an ore haul railway to the Ring of Fire in the James Bay Lowlands.
In a Jan. 18 statement KWG president Frank Smeenk said in late 2010 that chiefs Eli Moonias, Cornelius Wabasse, Sonny Gagnon, Roy Moonias and Lewis Nate were advised that there appears to be “technical and economic merit” to proceed with a feasibility study of a proposed railroad.
Smeenk said if that development begins, which impacts First Nations traditional lands, there must be must extensive consultation to “facilitate and expedite” the process. That means inviting “leading members of the five more directly impacted communities participate in the corporate planning from the outset. In this way those who are most affected by these hoped-for developments can become the proponents of them.”
Golder Associates is conducting testing of the soil samples taken last winter along the 350-kilometre length of the potential railway corridor. The data will be incorporated into a design and construction model being prepared by Krech Ojard & Associates, the Minnesota engineering firm contracted by Canada Chrome.
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