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Thursday night in Sault Ste. Marie, residents had an opportunity to speak with Noront Resources officials regarding the ferrochrome smelter that is expected to be built in the city over the next decade as part of the Ring of Fire project.
For five hours, the Noront team was grilled by the public with concerns regarding the proposed smelter. CTV News spoke with Noront President and Chief Executive Officer Alan Coutts at the event. Coutts said his team was asked a lot of questions.
“Some that we can answer and some that we can’t answer yet. We’re taking notes, we’re trying to engage. We’re trying to provide the information that we can,” The information was presented in an open house format in a hotel boardroom with everyone free to move around. It is a set up many residents say just did not work.
Amie Woods is a Sault resident that is against having the smelter in her community. “The format is very fragmented. It makes it hard to really have a flow of information coming from the company to really process and analyze,” said Woods. Nora Buhlmann is a concerned citizen.
“It’s a ‘Mickey Mouse’ deal. It’s too noisy in there.There’s lots of screens around, people are in the way. It’s takes time to read those screens,” said Buhlmann.
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