some things never change TIME TO LIGHT THE FUSE ON THE RING OF FIRE
Government Coordinator Never Been to Site
NORTH BAY – Nipissing MPP Vic Fedeli chastised the McGuinty government Friday for mismanaging the vital Ring of Fire mining development in Northern Ontario and causing unnecessary delays.
The development schedule for the major companies has already been pushed back a year to 2016. Today, Dalton McGuinty’s Ring of Fire coordinator, Dr. Christine Kaszycki, admitted to Fedeli at a conference in North Bay that she has NEVER stepped foot on the site.
“I was shocked to learn that she has never set foot in the Ring of Fire. No wonder this project is stalled!” exclaimed Fedeli, who toured the site himself last summer and is working to arrange a sales trip for local firms there this spring.
“The government says one thing, but doesn’t actually do anything. All they’ve done is hire people, built a bureaucracy, and not actually done any work. That’s why the projects are delayed another year.”
The Ring of Fire may prove to be the largest mining discovery of the last 100 years. This massive deposit of chromite located west of James Bay could create prosperity for the North for decades to come.