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Skip to comments.Video: Liberal Schoolbus Driver Verbally Abuses Little Girl For Criticizing Obama
Posted on 05/27/2010 12:59:53 PM PDT by careyb
Say hello to another anti-Christian bigot in our public school systems.
Full context is she took this student to task (and told her to go to a religious school) if she is going to be a "stupid little bigot" for being opposed to same sex marriage.
The democrats are such absurd @ssholes.
Who associates themselves with these people?
And the district refused to discipline the driver. Why am I not surprised.
just what 6 and 7 year old should be subjected to....some hair triggered mouthy dyke...
I was thinking of a different "L-word".
Listening to that tape my gay-dar went off.
The bus driver came to the kids' home, took them on the empty bus and chewed them out. That is what the dad said on the video.
This is what Homo-Leninists do; and allowed to perpetuate! Remember, they originally claimed they just wanted to be left alone; now they tell everyone what to think, say and do, through Political Corruption using the P.C. acronym
the sooner the US government go bankrupt the better. All the left wingers would be so out of work to spew their hate
If it had been my kid he'd be in the hospital.
OK, SHE'D be in the hospital. I've got nothing against punishing female libtards either!
Not only an attack on a child, but a school that actively tried to cover it up and stonewall discovery.
Many years ago I drove a school bus to put myself through college.
They taught us how to deal with all sorts of situations.
I would have been fired on the spot if I had done that.
I would react swiftly and violently to an incident like that.
This lesbian bitch of a school driver had better thank whatever goddess she worships that it wasn't the kids of a redneck like me....
...after the bus driver confessed to never hearing the girl say anything like what she berated her with "repeatedly"...this driver has a bigotry problem....and it's hers
....and there's tape of that also...*smiles*
Are you a log cabin Republican?
It's unconscionable that the parents had to sue to get the school to produce the tapes! I feel for anyone with their kids in government schools!
Gaydar is the built in alarm system found in heterosexuals that denotes homo threats.
Don't you have one?
That right there should be grounds for dismisal.
Wow. Had that 'lady' called my child a stupid little bigot, I would have certainly showed her the full scope of my duties as a parent.
Fascist brown-shirt behavior. Fire that child molestor!
By what authority does a bus driver enter a home and remove children?
Sounds like kidnapping to me.
I beg to differ. If heteros are truly hetero, then they would be clueless about 'gays'. Gays on the other hand, need gaydar to find each other. duh
There was another thread about this incident that I pinged the homeschool list to.
I sure hope it's not another incident.
Thanks for letting me know, though. You never know when I could miss something and appreciate the pings.
This is one of the most Republican counties of Indiana. I live one county over.
Ah,the tolerance of the left.
You would.
What? Are you bored now that you got kicked of the RF? Need something to do?
Ah, you wittle feelers got hurt because you outed yourself?! Well, I will show you, I will look up your past post history and see if I can dig sumptin up to hurt you so I can feel better about myself. Gaydar, whoop whoop whoop.
Who outed whose self?
I just saw how much trouble you caused on the RF and now here.
And everyone can see that the RM kicked you off the RF for it.
Here is a link for you and your partner.
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The lovely 1+1 apartment is located at the center of Kadikoy. The apartment is fully furnished and equipped with: a bedroom and a small sofa group, small vertical Jacuzzi, small and modernly designed bathroom, open american kitchen, kitchenware (dishes,pans, forks and knives), washing machine, refrigerator and cooker, towels for two, LCD TV and air condition.
Kadıköy it is also the name of the most prominent neighborhood of the district, a residential and commercial area that, with its numerous bars, cinemas and bookshops, is the cultural center of the Anatolian side. The major Haydarpaşa Terminal of the Turkish State Railways is located close to Kadıköy's center, serving east- and south-bound international, domestic and regional trains. Kadıköy does not have as much nightlife as Beyoğlu (where nightlife also continues much later into the night), nor does it have Nişantaşı's style of shopping or the Bosphorus for nightlife. Instead, it is often considered a cheaper alternative but may still be regarded as vibrant.
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Nice location and warm and comfortable apartment.
Metro station, bus station and big shopping centre were near.
The negative side was part of vacuum cleaner was broken but could use and I couldn't find iron board only. others were all perfectly working and no problem.
If they had more plates it would be more better.
The owner always responded quickly when I asked some questions.
I really like and enjoyed staying this apartment.
Apartment is well located in peaceful and friendly environment, but the ventilation is not optimal. The kitchen we found minimalistic
Wohnung ist gut gelegen in ruhiger und freundlicher Umgebung, aber die Durchlüftung nicht optimal. Die Küchenausstattung empfanden wir als minimalistisch
The location is really true and is good if you want to live in the Asian part of the bustling district Kadikoy. The apartment itself is warm in order, water and heating. Clean laundry was there, even the already mentioned by other drying rack was there, so we had clean towels (after drying). The cabinets could again be wiped, who wants to cook, should not expect too many utensils but who wants to cook in the delicious food around the corner already? Sometimes it smelled musty, which is also at the half position in the basement and the bad Badlüftung well.
Keys was bumpy: we had to call, luckily we had the phone number of Wimdu yet received, because the landlord came nothing on demand, and despite appointment no one was there, so call and 20 minutes later, everything had worked.
The beds were soft and the way we slept well, especially it was quiet.
Whether we recommend it? Who able price, bed and rest are important, the so, who draws on a nice hotel room for comparison, then no.
Die Lage stimmt wirklich und ist gut, wenn man im asiatischen Teil im quirligen Kadiköy Viertel wohnen will. Die Wohnung selbst ist in Ordnung, das Wasser und die Heizung warm. Saubere Wäsche war da, auch der bereits von anderen erwähnte Wäscheständer war zur Stelle, wodurch wir saubere Handtücher hatten (nach dem Trocknen). Die Schränke könnten mal wieder ausgewischt werden, wer kochen will, sollte nicht zuviele Utensilien erwarten, aber wer will bei dem leckeren Essen um die Ecke schon kochen? Manchmal roch es muffelig, was wohl auch an der halben Lage im Keller und der schlechten Badlüftung liegt.
Schlüsselübergabe war holprig: wir mußten erst anrufen, zum Glück hatten wir die Telefonnumer von wimdu noch erhalten, denn vom Vermieter kam auch auf Nachfrage nichts, und trotz Verabredung war niemand da, also Anruf und 20 min später hatte alles geklappt.
Die Betten waren übrigens weich und wir haben gut geschlafen, vor allem war es ruhig.
Ob wir es weiterempfehlen? Wem Lage, Preis, Bett und Ruhe wichtig sind, dem ja, wer ein schönes Hotelzimmer als Vergleich heranzieht, dann nein.
Nice apartment, quiet part of Kadikoy but just at 5 min by foot to more animated part of area and of boats to european part of Istanbul and bus stand to airport Sabiha Gocken.
This apartment was an excellent value for the money. It was a 2 block walk to the Marmaray which goes under the sea and puts you in easy access to any place in Istanbul. Next to Marmaray station is a Carrefore inside a large shopping center. Also, the neighbor hood is charming with many local delis, restaurants, bakers. Right on the corner is a vegetarian cafe. The apartment is large and comfortable. It is in the basement but looks out on a large backyard with garden and trees. It is quiet. Kadikoi is the place to stay while visiting Istanbul. Thank you Metin.
For a short stay highly recommended small and compact.
Für einen kurzen Aufenthalt sehr empfehlenswert klein und Kompakt.
Reviews for this host's other properties
I didn't stay this apartment I booked.
The caretaker told us the apartment I booked has problem with electricity and roof when we arrived.
Then he took us to another apartment that smelly, dirty and no internet connection. Ironing board was broken too.
My all family and friends were worried me because of Turkish coup situation but I couldn't send any message to them that night. Thats terrible.
We were not happy at all.
We complained to the caretaker and tried to speak to the owner but he had never answered our call. The caretaker also didn't answer call often or call us back.
My partner complained then the caretaker offered bigger apartment and also the apartment I booked if the repair work finish. 2 days later the receptionist told us we can move bigger apartment if we pay extra money.
Somehow we found later the apartment I booked the electricity and roof were no problem. The caretaker told us a lie.
We of course complained because we supposed to stay the apartment I booked.
After our complain, we could stay bigger apartment but no clean enough so we cleaned after we moved in and no toilet roll and washing up requid etc.
The rest of our stay was ok....however, this experience was really terrible and very much disappointed.
it was really disappointed and sad because last stay I stay his ( the owner's ) other area's apartment and I was happy to stay but not this time.
We where met by a person who was not very good at other languages than Tyrkish, however we got the appartment key and key to internet.
The appartment was as described, very nice, however the housekeeping could be little better, but it was acceptable. What is a great plus, is that this is one of the few appartment with a real oven.
The kitchen utilities was limited, you have what you need, but nothing extra, i would advice to put in a microwave, little more pots and pans, and a mixer.
All in all, my wife and I was satisfied by the appartment.
The area is nice, many small shops, easy access to supermarkeds for shopping. Dont miss out on the marked on your way to the haubor.
I would come again.
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One way to slow the Santos down is to run it on 50 HZ power. Their spec (#18) says fork rotation is 84 RPM at 60 HZ and 70 RPM at 50 HZ. For what I suspect is a lot of money an inverter will convert 12 DC (car battery?) to 120 V 50 HZ power. This one has a 50/60 HZ switch. http://www.samlexamerica.com/ Under select a model scroll down to SA-2000K-112. Or maybe a small European generator. Not cheap either. Perhaps some of our international members have some ideas on how to get a 50 HZ source in the USA.
Dear Chrisgraff, I went to make some comments about your yesterday post re your experimentations with "effective hydration", but the post is gone! I do remember that you refrigerated the dough for about over 12 hours or more in the process of effectively hydrating it. I would personally avoid any refrigeration, which can cause the dough itself to toughen and, hence, not to be conducive to kneading afterward. Also, 12 hours or so is quite excessive. Have a great weekend!
Congratulations on your new mixer.
One way to slow the Santos down is to run it on 50 HZ power. . . .
I emailed Mr. Fouquet from Santos about the speed. . . .
1. Check the output of the Variac with a voltmeter every time you use it. Those units are dependent on input voltage - the numbers on the variac will always be a bit off!2. Will a variac work with an AC motor? Many recommend against it. Starving the motor of voltage will cause it to heat...I would keep an eye on that.110v to 115v might be a better place to start for the sake of your mixer.
All i found is the max. which is 5 KG.
I have a question about this santos fork mixer, what is the minimum dough she can handle?
Welcome, Kriss. It depends on how much manual assistance you want to give - typically with something like a spoon to keep the bowl rotating even if there is little dough. It also depends on the consistency of the dough. I typically avoid batches smaller than 1kg, but I have done as small of 500g.
Welcome, Kriss. It depends on how much manual assistance you want to give - typically with something like a spoon to keep the bowl rotating even if there is little dough. It also depends on the consistency of the dough. I typically avoid batches smaller than 1kg, but I have done as small of 500g.
Dear Kriss, welcome! I am fully agreeable to the comments made by Mr. Bill/SFNM. And, I would like to add the following. . . . Fundamentally speaking, Santos dough mixer is not designed for home consumers, and as such there is no easy answer to your question! The manual that came with the mixer does not specify a minimum capacity at all, for the mixer is meant for professional use at hotels, restaurants, or etc. Hence, as a home baker, you would be compelled to somehow bend the machine to your purpose! And, it may not prove to be a simple task. The "minimum capacity" you are looking for depends upon various factors such as the level of hydration, the type of dough you like to make, and etc. As a general rule, the smaller the amount of dough you desire to make, the more difficult it will be for the fork to reach and engage it at the bottom of the mixing bowl. Even if you somehow manage to make a small volume of dough with the mixer, the dough may end up suffering from un-uniform kneading, excessive kneading, or some other ill. I can give you many hypotheticals under the low-dough-volume scenario, each attended with some kind of difficulty. Besides the issues surrounding the production of low volume dough, the main problem with the Santos is the fast rotation speed of its fork, which can be quite merciless on your dough if you can not somehow intervene. If you are looking for an autopilot type of dough mixer to be used at home for production of small quantities of dough, Santos would be probably a wrong choice. Good luck!
Here is Mr. Fouquet's answer for the Santos. . . .
Here is Mr. Fouquet's answer for the Santos,
In about an hour, I am going to talk to an electrical engineer via telephone about slowing down the Santos armature. I let you know if I learn anything new.
"Also, he warned me that if the transformer and the mixer are used together in an area close to an industrial zone, the voltage in the house can drop considerably which can pose a problem"I know a little about electricity and would like an explanation of that statement. I find it hard to believe. I also don't think I would try the transformer route. This motor wants to run at a certain speed at 60HZ and will try to maintain the speed at a lower voltage. The result will be heat and stalling. My two cents, but I hope I am wrong so you get the desired results.
By the way, please let me invite your attention to the following youtube video: . This person apparently has wonderfully managed to reduce the RPM of her or his Santos. (I do not get enough of viewing the video!) I wished I could somehow invite her or his attention to this forum to disclose how she or he accomplished the feat. Good day!
He's here:http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,9665.msg83843.html#msg83843
Omid,In light of your recent Santos investigations, I thought that you, and possibly others, might find the following article (Mixers: Developing Dough) of interest: http://www.bakingbusiness.com/Features/Processing%20and%20Packaging/2010/4/Mixers.aspx?racategory=Mixing.
Omid, I thought I had already addressed this earlier in this thread. A variable frequency drive coupled with a rewound or a new motor is the only way to get your desired speed. along with being dangerous a variac WILL NOT WORK AT ALL with the type of motor in your santos and a transformer will not slow it down enough. Again, if you use a variac the speed of your mixer will not slow down at all and you will just eventually damage the motor. Please save your money. plus, I am a little scared.....who are these experts you are talking to.......they are giving you bad advice. Remember, I am a santos owner...been down this very same road years ago. If you don't believe me hopefully scpizza will talk to you soon so you can stay away from the advice of people speculating about how your santos works.


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When the firefighters of Ladder Company 189 pull Clare's friends out of a blazing cafe, she happily comes to their rescue. As a favor to the men, she visits their firehouse kitchen to teach them the finer points of operating their newly donated espresso machine. But more than their coffee turns out to be hot. Somebody's torching cafes around the city, and firefighters are beginning to die in suspicious ways....
Believing the two events are related, Clare investigates, staking out a five-borough bake sale and sniffing out clues in the pizza joints of Brooklyn. When her detective boyfriend, Mike Quinn, is pulled into the fire of a false accusation, Clare is desperate to put out the flames. But will she be able to come to Mike's rescue before someone tries to extinguish her?
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"Firefighters play a big part in this cozy mystery-"
Clare Cosi of the NY Village Blend coffeehouse is back into detecting murder. This time she, her famed mother-in-law, and another of her employees are caught in a fire bomb at another coffeehouse. Their good friend and artist ends up in a coma and the fire investigator is not convinced that a firebomb started the fire. But when one of the firefighters looses his life in a second coffeehouse fire, the search begins for this serial arsonist.
This series is always exciting and informative. This book is dedicated to firefighters and their families everywhere, but especially to all those men and women who fought the blazes after the 9/11 tragedy. The authors do a great job humanizing these firefighters--one of which is the fictional brazen cousin of Clare's policeman boyfriend. These cousins' relationship has been less than friendly in the past. We learn about their history in this mystery.
I highly recommend this series. It's also filled with delicious recepies. I've been listening to the audio version of these books, and have found the reader adds a great deal to my enjoyment.
"NOT Awful :-) !"
I've read and listened to a lot of the Cleo Coyle Coffee House Mysteries. Love them. It is set in a compolitan background with lots of different accents: Brooklyn, NJ, English, French, Italian....
Interesting plot and satifying ending.
"A Salute to Fire Fighters"
This story gets off to a fast and frightening start when Clare and two friends are trapped in a fire while visiting a coffee house owned by an acquaintance. They are rescued by the FDNY.
Fire fighters are key characters in the plot and I found that aspect of the story interesting.
I loved the first book of this series that I read (Murder by Mocha). I did not like this one quite as much for reasons that are particular to me. I enjoy stories about amateur detective . However, I do not enjoy it when the amateur detective puts herself in danger while following a "hunch". That occurs several times in this story.
I will give this series another try. The core characters are colorful and interesting. The mysteries are intricate and move along at a steady pace.
Narrator Rebecca Gibel has a clear voice and excellent diction.
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As the wife of a fire lieutenant this one hit close to home. Thank you for honoring firefighters and helping others understand exactly what they place on the line each shift.
I have enjoyed listening to Cleo Coyle books. This book was one of my favorites. I particularly like the part in this book when Claire is showing the fire fighters how to make espresso. The humor was great!
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I like this book!
OK, that out of the way, there are a few things that's starting to annoy me about Cleo Coyle's writing. Narrow minded investigators seems to be a prerequisite to let our heroine do her sleuthing. Instead of letting the story flow, faulty "whodunit" theories makes for a jerky story.
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Coyle still likes to write about food, but thankfully this book has a lot more writing about coffee. Me likey!
Good ending, even if it felt a bit rushed.
Gibel's narration was good as usual.
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This series just keeps getting better and better. The characters are now d friends and I can't wait to listen to the next book to see what happens. Love Rebecca Gibel as the narrator.
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This book is an enjoyable addition to the Coffehouse Mystery series. It's the first I've listened to through Audible and LOVED the narration. She had a wonderful range of "voices" for the various characters, making this experience truly wonderful. Sometimes a narrator will turn me off completely from listening to an otherwise good story. But I'll be back for more with Rebeca Gibel.
"Best coffeehouse mystery to date."
I was becoming worried this series had lost its zing. #5 and #6 were just ok. The 3 redeemed these authors. Great characters.
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by John MacArthur
The atheists' dilemma: whom do you thank when you think there's no one to be grateful to?
Thankfulness is one of the distinguishing traits of the human spirit. We sense the need to say thanks, and we realize we ought to be more grateful than we are. We furthermore perceive that we are indebted to (and accountable to) a higher power than ourselves—the God who made us. According to Scripture, everyone has this knowledge, including those who refuse to honor God or thank Him (Romans 1:19–21).
Ingratitude is dishonorable by anyone's reckoning, but to be willfully ungrateful toward the Creator in whose image we are made is to deny an essential aspect of our own humanity. The shame of such ingratitude is inscribed on the human conscience, and even the most dogmatic atheists are not immune from the knowledge that they ought to give thanks to God. Try as they might to suppress or deny the impulse, "what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them" (Romans 1:19).
During a November 2009 debate in England sponsored by a rationalist group known as Intelligence Squared, Richard Dawkins admitted that when he looks at the Milky Way or the Grand Canyon, he is overcome by a profound feeling of thankfulness. "It's a feeling of sort of an abstract gratitude that I am alive to appreciate these wonders," he said. "When I look down a microscope it's the same feeling. I am grateful to be alive to appreciate these wonders."
But to whom does an atheist like Dawkins express such gratitude?
I'm by no means the first person to point out this conundrum. In fact, the Internet is peppered with failed attempts to justify an atheistic celebration of Thanksgiving. Atheists insist they are not ungrateful. They confess that they feel thankful, and they clearly sense a need to avoid the ignominy of brazen ingratitude on a cosmic scale—especially at Thanksgiving.
One atheist has practically made a hobby of writing articles to explain why atheists feel the need to be thankful. He tackles the question of whom an atheist is supposed to thank. His best answer? Atheists can be grateful to farmers for the food we eat, to doctors for the health we enjoy, to engineers for the advantages of modern technology, to city workers for keeping our environment clean and orderly—and so on.
Here's the problem with that: Tipping the waitress or tipping one's hat to sanitation workers doesn't even come close to resolving the problem of whom Dawkins should thank when he looks at the stars, stands at the edge of the Grand Canyon, or studies the world of countless wonders his microscope reveals in a single drop of pond water.
Of course we ought to be thankful on a human level to people who help make our lives better. But if thanking people exhausts your sense of blessedness and satisfies that "sort of . . . abstract gratitude" you feel when pondering the vastness of the universe, you have already suppressed your own conscience to a frightening degree. Your worldview is spiritually bankrupt.
Another atheist writer, acknowledging this problem, says the answer is easy for her: she thanks her lucky stars. "What it comes down to," she writes, "is that an atheist is generally thankful for good luck, serendipity."
That's an odd and ironic answer from a point of view that repudiates theism on the grounds that it is not "rational" to believe in God. (Not that atheism itself truly stands on solid rational grounds. After all, the starting point for atheistic materialism is the equation Nobody times nothing equals everything. What could possibly be more irrational?)
Chance, luck, fortune, happenstance, fate, kismet—whatever label you want to put on it—is not a force or intelligence. "Chance" has to do with mathematical probability. Flip a coin and there's a 50-50 chance it will come up tails. But "chance" has no power to flip the coin, much less design an ordered universe.
Nevertheless, this is how atheistic materialists have trained themselves to think: chance is the ultimate creator. In the words of one Nobel Prize-winning atheist, "Pure chance, absolutely free but blind, is at the very root of the stupendous edifice of evolution." Fortune has thus been personified—imbued with the power to determine, order, and cause everything that happens.
That's mythology, not science. At the end of the day the atheist is no more rational and no less superstitious than the astrologist (or the animist) who thinks impersonal "lucky stars" determine one's fortune.
On some level, atheists themselves surely realize this. Proof of their internal angst is seen in the fact that so many of them are not content merely to disbelieve. They are militant in their opposition to God. They hate the very thought of God and would love to have every mention of Him removed from public discourse—as if that would somehow remove the burden of their own ingratitude and relieve the pangs of a guilty conscience.
Such hatred is as irrational as atheism itself, and it is further evidence that atheists have some awareness of God that they desperately want to bury. Who nurtures such hatred for someone they truly believe doesn't even exist?
Indeed, as Scripture says, it is the ultimate folly to try to suppress our own innate sense of obligation to our Maker. "The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God'" (Psalm 14:1). In short, to deny God is to debase one's own mind and dehumanize the whole person (Romans 1:28).
That's why we remind ourselves to give thanks to God—specifically, the one true God who has revealed Himself in Scripture as a God of grace and forgiveness, who so loved the world that He gave His Son as an atonement for sin, so "that we might die to sin and live to righteousness" (1 Peter 2:24).
He graciously compels us to thank Him, and He himself should top the list of things we are thankful for.
This article is from the November 22, 2012, edition of The Washington Times. © 2012 (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/21/the-atheists-thanksgiving-dilemma/).
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Forgetting atheists for a moment (will they ever let us?), I wonder how John might have written this essay concerning those who worship and thus thank false gods?
I was reading today a different essay by the brilliant apologist Dr. William Lane Craig explaining how Muslims erroneously represent Christ in the Quran, and exactly how this then plays out. And, of course, this leads them to give thanks to the wrong God.
It would be interesting to hear how John differs in addressing those who give no thanks to God, and those who give thanks to the wrong God. Perhaps he's done that in the past and I haven't found that sermon yet, being only a year into following "Grace to You," and having only listened to roughly 100 of the available sermons.
If any of John's followers know of such a sermon, and it's title, I would appreciate a heads up. Thanks!
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Mr. MacArthur,
Thank you for your scholarship and your discourse in the public square. I recall the call of wisdom through Solomon when he asks "How long will you simple one's reject wisdom and pursue folly". This simple one is grateful for your work in commentary form and other books, that continue to place the Gospel at the "Gates of the City". I am thankful in particular this week for your commentary on Hebrews and your Bible Handbook. It was very useful in my study in preparation for a Sermon, by God's grace I was able to preach today. "For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek." Romans 1:16.
Thank You for not being ashamed of the glorious gospel of grace in Christ.
In Christ's love,
Jason Howard Guidry
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Natural Resources Committee on Feb. 16th, 2012
Evidence of meeting #27 for Natural Resources in the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was going.
A recording is available from Parliament.
On the agenda
MPs speaking
Also speaking
- Wes Hanson President and Chief Executive Officer, Noront Resources Ltd.
- Kirk McKinnon President and Chief Executive Officer, MacDonald Mines Exploration Ltd.
- Ian Brodie-Brown President and Chief Executive Officer, AurCrest Gold Inc.
- Elijah Moonias Marten Falls First Nation
- David Kilgour Councillor, City of Greater Sudbury
8:50 a.m.
The Vice-Chair Claude Gravelle
I call the meeting to order.
Good morning and welcome to the natural resources committee. It looks like the chair is a little bit late this morning, so we're going to start without him.
We're going to start with the witnesses as they appear on the agenda. Our first witnesses are from Noront Resources: Wes Hanson, president and chief executive officer, and Olya Yousefi, manager, corporate communications. I'd like to welcome all of the witnesses here today.
Go ahead, Mr. Hanson.
8:50 a.m.
Wes Hanson President and Chief Executive Officer, Noront Resources Ltd.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It's a pleasure to be here today to discuss the Ring of Fire with the committee.
My name is Wes Hanson. I'm the president and CEO of Noront Resources. I'm a professional geologist by trade. I've practised my trade for 30 years, mostly in northern Canada. I believe before the meeting many of you received a copy of a brief that Noront prepared in advance of the meeting. The brief basically describes my qualifications, the history of Noront, the history of the discoveries in the Ring of Fire, and Noront's future plans in the Ring of Fire.
It's certainly heartening, from Noront's perspective, to know that this is receiving some form of recognition at a federal level, and this committee's discussing it is very heartening and promising for us.
The Ring of Fire, in my mind, represents perhaps one of the greatest mineral discoveries in the history of the world. I don't say that lightly. I have the experience and the qualifications to be able to make that judgment. I've actually travelled and seen many of the great mineral discoveries of the world in South Africa and Russia and other parts of the world, including the Sudbury camp in Canada.
The promise and the potential of this area are second to none. It's going to take a lot of work, a lot of investment, and a lot of cooperation between various levels of government, the first nations, and industry to realize the true potential of this tremendous opportunity, but I think it's a challenge that we can all rise up to meet together. Noront is certainly committed towards that path. We are looking at working cooperatively with all levels of government to see responsible development of this particular region. We think that at some point in time not only will nickel be produced from this region, but also chromite, and potentially copper and zinc, potentially gold. The opportunities are endless. This is an opportunity that everyone should take very seriously.
I know we have a number of speakers here. Most of the points that I want to make in regard to Noront are laid out in the brief.
In short form, Noront made the original discovery in the Ring of Fire that triggered the staking rush--that was a nickel sulphide discovery similar to the deposits in Sudbury. That staking rush led to the discovery of chromite in the Ring of Fire. Chromite gets a lot of the focus, both on the federal government level and on the provincial government level, largely because these chromite discoveries in the Ring of Fire will someday rank amongst the largest in the world. The chromite market is tight. Most of the chromite in the world is currently consumed in Asia, so getting it to the marketplace at a cost-competitive price is going to be a difficult challenge for Canada, but certainly it's something that could potentially happen in the not-too-distant future.
Those are my opening remarks. Thank you.
8:50 a.m.
The Chair Leon Benoit
Thank you very much, Mr. Hanson. We appreciate your concise remarks. You'll of course get questions later.
Now, from MacDonald Mines Exploration Limited, we have Kirk McKinnon, president and chief executive officer. Go ahead, please, Mr. McKinnon.
8:50 a.m.
Kirk McKinnon President and Chief Executive Officer, MacDonald Mines Exploration Ltd.
Thank you. My name is Kirk McKinnon. I'm the president and CEO of MacDonald Mines.
I just was reading The Globe and Mail. The article talked about Ontario's challenges being unprecedented, but I have to disagree with Mr. Drummond when he says economic growth will not save Ontario this time. Perhaps we can start there.
Here's a brief history of James Bay. I share Wes's opinion on the opportunities James Bay holds. I have, working in our company, two of the most renowned geologists, Dr. Jim Franklin and Dr. Larry Hulbert, and they basically talk about James Bay as being a jewel box, but I'm not sure that situation is understood.
Two things are required for something to really change. More than 400 years ago, the Hudson's Bay Company in James Bay and in Hudson Bay dominated the world. I think it owned 10% of the world's land mass, and the reason was the fur trade and the huge demand for furs. We see an example of that today in Alberta, where we have the oil and the huge demand for oil.
The opportunity in James Bay, in my opinion, is unprecedented. The issue for the government, I believe, is to recognize that opportunity. I have a proposition for you, and the proposition is very simple. It is that if you believe there is an opportunity in James Bay that is unparalleled in Canada—and I urge you to have your people search that out—then that opportunity would provide, in my opinion, for the province of Ontario an economic growth engine that would be unprecedented, especially in this time of need in this province. The opportunity, for me, is being lost because of lack of recognition. You see here at this table different people who represent different desires and different directions. There is no clear, concise process as it relates to the interface with the first nations. Sometimes I quarrel with our friends in Quebec, but I tell you in all honesty that they have a system in the province of Quebec that is by far the best in Canada and is recognized throughout the world as that.
Look hard at that, because it is a system through which they have made the necessary arrangements to work in concert with the first nations and mining communities. We do not have that kind of opportunity. If you believe that the Ring of Fire and the James Bay lowlands offer the opportunity that I'm outlining for you, then it requires government leadership to bring stability, discipline, and direction.
I can tell you we have an investment partner in our company, HudBay, and HudBay is highly reluctant to operate in this province—I'm probably not supposed to say that—because of uncertainty. Big companies do not like uncertainty. They are spending more than $1 billion in Peru, with the issues in Peru, and they're reluctant to spend it in Canada.
Cliffs, as Wes mentioned, has on the table $2,250,000,000. That's ready to go. De Beers spent north of $1 billion on Victor in James Bay, so you have evidence of expenditure. Our scientists tell me that we haven't even scratched the surface yet, so why are we challenged in James Bay? There are two reasons: first, the wetland environment is challenging; second, there is uncertainty.
Here's my proposition. When the government awarded the contract to build the navy vessels—I think the contract went to Saint John, New Brunswick, and a smaller part of it went to Vancouver—to me that was somewhat synonymous, in that you had a situation that had to move forward. Money was spent, and I don't have to explain to you the benefit to those areas.
I would like you to designate James bay, the Hudson Bay lowlands, and the James Bay lowlands as a special area worthy of special attention, not because I want it but because of the opportunity it holds. We can quantify that for you.
If you look at the metals in James Bay--copper, zinc, nickel, chrome, titanium, vanadium, gold, and lead--there has never been a treasure trove like this anywhere. Unless we get out and treat this differently, it's just going to sit there and languish.
The other thing is, we have a quote in here from the Premier of the Province of Ontario, and it makes me sad. He says: "We may not have natural resources...". In fairness to the Premier, I think he's saying it relative to what they have in Alberta. We have the opportunity in James Bay to make something significant happen, so I'm asking you to designate that area.
What can you do? You can double the flowthrough opportunity for investment and you can fund feasibility studies. There are necessary mechanisms in place to do that. We're not asking for money; we're asking for you to stimulate investment. If you do that, the treasure trove and the metals in that area will pay back big time.
Thank you.
8:55 a.m.
The Chair Leon Benoit
Thank you very much, Mr. McKinnon, for your presentation.
Now, from AurCrest Gold, we have Ian A. Brodie-Brown, president and chief executive officer. Go ahead, please, sir, with your presentation.
8:55 a.m.
Ian Brodie-Brown President and Chief Executive Officer, AurCrest Gold Inc.
Thank you.
I'd like to thank the committee for inviting me to address this important issue, as well as thank my colleagues who are talking today.
I'll take the lead from Kirk on the sad report yesterday to save Ontario's economy. I'm just going from what Evan Solomon kept saying on CBC last night about the need for more lotteries and liquor stores. What we want to say about resources is that I am proud. I think Ontario and Canada need to take a second look at what drives this economy, who we are, and what brought us here. If the solution is between liquor and gambling on the one hand and developing the north on the other.... That's offhand, but it's what we're seeing in the media.
Let's have some attention on our assets as Canadians--hewers of wood and drawers of water. What's wrong with that? We can go ahead in Ontario developing assets that in today's dollars are in the trillions and trillions of dollars. People take numbers from when nickel was at a $1.65 to $2.50, or when gold was at $250, but if you apply today's prices, you're talking about trillions of dollars. I encourage you to look at it that way.
An important issue that is not going to go away and is relevant throughout the world is first nations. That's in the paper I submitted to you. I am co-founder of a drilling company that's partly owned by the first nations, CYR Drilling International. I have financing in AurCrest by the Lac Seul First Nation. They put in half a million dollars and sit on our board of directors. This issue will never go away, and it needs to be addressed.
If you look at Australia, you will see that they have just 4.5% unemployment and a net migration of labour from the urban centres to the interior. That's all around jobs in the resource sector, and they're proud of it. I am proud.
Canada has 7.8% unemployment, but we have native reserves with 90% unemployment. To take the resource sector where it needs to go is to address this problem. I feel that this problem has been ignored both federally and provincially. It has been handed off to us, the businessmen and businesswomen, the entrepreneurs.
If we have no road map.... I have a different agreement with Webequie. Two years ago the Ring of Fire was blockaded, and we were the only company sanctioned to drill, because we had an agreement in place with Webequie. I'd started a drilling company with them. With Lac Seul, they sit on my board of directors, but not everybody has half a million dollars to put into a junior mining company. They received a $27 million payment for mismanagement of their timber rights years ago. I was then contacted by another group in Thunder Bay that had just received $175 million, asking if would advise them on how they might spend that money.
That leads to a potential answer that needs a lot more looking into: establishing a way for the first nations to be involved in the ownership of the companies, because it's not just staking and line-cutting or owning a store that's necessary. Everybody in Canada, whether they've been here for a month or a year or several generations.... I am proud to be a Canadian, and we have that one last item we need to take care of, and it's instrumental to where our assets are. Our resource assets are in the first nation territories. They need to be involved.
It's no longer something that can be left to develop organically. We have to solve the problem and have a study or committee to look into a fund that might support them to buy into junior companies to get these resources. The resources are out there, but as Kirk said, people are leaving the country, and it's not just the big companies. I'm on the board of directors of a company called Bold, which is a major player in the Ring of Fire. That's their only property in Ontario; they're going to Quebec, and then outside the country.
For these assets to be valuable, people like us have to spend. I think, Kirk, you've spent close to $20 million, and I have no idea how much Noront has spent. We've spent close to $4 million in the Ring of Fire. A fortune has to be spent, but the first nations need to be involved in order to find those assets and bring them forward.
My main issue here--and I look forward to questions--is how we involve the first nations in the development of an asset that we as Canadians need to advertise a little more and need to be a little prouder of. It's a wonderful opportunity to bring the first nations and the rest of Canadians together. It is "the" opportunity.
Thank you.
9 a.m.
The Chair Leon Benoit
Thank you, Mr. Brodie-Brown.
From the Marten Falls First Nation, we have Chief Elijah Moonias. Please go ahead with your presentation, sir.
9 a.m.
Chief Elijah Moonias Marten Falls First Nation
Thank you for allowing me to speak here for the few minutes I have. I hope in this short time I do some justice to the people I represent.
We are located on the Albany River, at the junction of the Ogoki and Albany Rivers. We were the third peoples that signed Treaty 9, in 1905. We are about 150 kilometres from Nakina and another 150 kilometres from the Ring of Fire, which is our territory. The Black Thor, Eagle's Nest and Big Daddy deposits are major deposits and are in our territory. They are not Webequie's or Lansdowne's or Matawa's; they are ours, and for what happens there, you'll have to get our agreements first.
The exploration in the area is huge, and those huge deposits will take a long time, for years to come. Industry will become wealthy. The federal government will have its taxes. These things happen. It is obvious that this is what will take place.
However, we would like to point out our situation in Marten Falls. You need to ask those of us who have lived there for who knows how long. Our own history is in the petroglyphs. They point out a history of 16,000 years in this area. We have been here a long time.
What do we want from the developments? That is the question. You have heard from Cliffs what they want to do with the chromite deposit. We say that these are not just big holes in the ground. These will be dug in the muskeg, in our wetland sponge area, not in the highlands and grasslands, as in Kimberley, South Africa, where the Big Hole is. This will be on top of the water, on top of the sponge.
We understand that the Cliffs company wants to make a road or a railroad on the north-south corridor to connect to Nakina. We understand that electricity will be supplied by fuel oil. Using fuel oil to generate electricity is not great and adds to the issue of environmental concerns.
We heard Noront's presentation today. They want to develop a nickel deposit on the ground and transport this as slurry through an underground pipeline through thousands of freshwater lakes.
They want to build an access road to Webequie to be taken west, I assume, to Pickle Lake.
We said that it doesn't do justice to these projects to simply call them "mines". They are not just tools in the ground where the proponents can simply scoop up minerals and take them away. Getting the ore from the ground will require people, power, processing facilities, and hundred of kilometres of roads to be built in our territory, crossing at least three major rivers, hundreds of streams, sensitive boreal forests, and wetlands. Also, they want to cross two riverway parks.
From everything we have heard here, we know that government wants to expedite the approval of these developments and will likely subsidize their construction, but again I ask, what about us? We know these developments will forever change our community and our way of life. We know that whatever happens at the mines has the potential to spread hundreds of kilometres through the rivers and wetlands.
We know that if this doesn't get done right, and if there isn't any proper attention given to the environment and the needs of our people when decisions are being made, we will end up with either disaster or disappointment. This is the story of development in the north, and it is a story that needs to change.
From our perspective, we need a thorough process to be applied to the study of these proposed developments, and we need to be involved in the decisions that are made. No one can represent our views or decide what is best for us. Only we can do that.
This is why we have been proposing a joint panel review. We first asked for this process to be used back in May 2011, but the companies and the federal government have decided that they will use a comprehensive study process. This type of process will not work for our people. It is conducted entirely on paper, does not provide for hearings, and is ultimately conducted by consultants and bureaucrats who have no knowledge of our community or any connection to it.
Most of our elders do not speak English, and for many of us English is not our first language. We do not have the technical capacity in our community to read the technical reports or to set out our concerns in writing so that the consultants and bureaucrats will fully appreciate them.
Even the proponents, Cliffs and Noront, have recognized that there must be hearings with translation in order for our people to fully and meaningfully participate in the environmental assessment. Canada has not changed course. It has offered us $28,200 to participate in the Cliffs review, as though a little bit of money will solve these problems, but how can we participate in a process that we know, and they know, is flawed?
It is insulting for Canada to offer us only a tiny fraction of what we realistically require to meaningfully consider and address the significant issues that these multi-billion dollar developments pose for our community.
This is why we asked the Minister of the Environment for Canada to negotiate an agreement with us on the terms of a joint review panel environmental assessment. This is why we are in court today: to stop what we consider to be a sham of an environmental assessment. We want a negotiated process in which we are full partners in setting the terms for the review and in the design of a process that meets our needs, and we want to be full participants in making decisions after it's complete.
Our inherent right is with the lands and waters and in the animals, fish, and fowl that sustain us. We did not give up those rights when the treaty was signed. In fact, they were affirmed.
The commissioners negotiated the treaty and said in their own reports that when the Indians were assured their way of life would not be disturbed, they signed. That's in the Treaty 9 document. We need to know whether our way of life will be disturbed by the proposed big holes in the muskeg, by the tailings, the slurry, the access roads, the fuel oil generation, and all of the other things that these mines represent.
Canada has a constitutional obligation to answer this question and to make decisions in accordance with the treaty and with our constitutionally protected rights. We understand all too well that leaving such decisions to ministerial discretion can result in disaster. We only need to consider the situation now in Alberta, the poisoning of the Athabaska River by the tar sands tailings, and the circumstances of the aboriginal communities in that region. We don't want that situation repeated here.
There is no way to quantify the billions and billions of dollars that companies have taken out of the ground in Canada and elsewhere around the world, while natives continue to suffer because few of these benefits come back to us. Things that you take for granted—clean water, sewers, houses without mould, schools that educate instead of assimilate, good jobs for your children in your own communities—are things that are still beyond our reach.
Will we have imperialism, meaning you take the wealth and leave the natives barefoot, or will we have development? I'm referring to that big hole in South Africa, from where Cecil Rhodes and the De Beers brothers took three tons of diamonds, and now Zimbabwe is dying of AIDS without any modern medical facilities to fight their disease. That's the imperialism I'm talking about.
If development does occur, we question whether development would damage our lands, air, waters, and wildlife, and we definitely oppose development that would leave us destitute. Nothing lasts forever, and these mines are but a moment in time, even if they last for a century. When they end, we will need our lands to continue the way of life that has sustained us.
Development has to occur in a way that Marten Falls First Nation can accept, and this means having a final say in whether and how it happens. We share a responsibility with Canada under our treaty to make sure that development in the Ring of Fire is sustainable and environmentally sound.
Make no mistake: either we will be part of the decision-making for these developments or there will be no development.
9:15 a.m.
The Chair Leon Benoit
Thank you, Chief Moonias.
Next we have, from the City of Greater Sudbury, David Kilgour, councillor, and Ian Wood, director of economic development.
Welcome, gentlemen. Go ahead with your presentation as you've planned.
9:15 a.m.
David Kilgour Councillor, City of Greater Sudbury
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, honourable members and fellow witnesses.
On behalf of Her Worship, Mayor Marianne Matichuk, members of city council and the citizens of the City of Greater Sudbury, I am very pleased to be here this morning to discuss some of our history in mining and resource development in northern Ontario. It's a subject we've been dealing with for more than 100 years.
Greater Sudbury is an undisputed global centre of mining expertise. Over the past 130 years, billions if not trillions of dollars in nickel, copper, platinum, gold, and many other minerals have been mined, milled, smelted, and refined in our city. Today, even with more than a century of mining activity, an estimated $40 billion of mineral reserves have been currently identified, and constant exploration adds to this total every day. We are the largest geographic municipality in Ontario. Within our municipal boundaries, there are approximately 7,000 workers employed directly in mining production and mineral processing, while about twice that number work in the mining supply and services industries.
Nowhere else in the world will you find this level of mining activity within a fully urban city. Our community is an outstanding example of where the mining industry has been and where it's going. We lived through the environmental devastation of the antiquated mining and mineral processing methods that were in place up until the 1960s. People in Sudbury and our constituent communities of Garson, Copper Cliff, and Coniston faced the sulphurous fumes of the roasting beds and smelters, living in a landscape devoid of vegetation and hostile to the eye, but over the past 40 years, we have reclaimed our environment by planting almost 10 million trees, neutralizing acidic soils, and improving lake water quality.
Our mining industry partners have joined us in these efforts and made substantial changes to their processes and facilities. Sulphur emissions have been reduced by as much as 90%, dust has been controlled, and tailings drainage is now treated and contained. The result is a regional capital of 160,000 people in a city that contains over 330 freshwater lakes amid the natural beauty that is northern Ontario. We are a green and beautiful city, but we remain a mining giant. In 2011 alone, operations in Greater Sudbury produced 106,000 tonnes of nickel, 164,000 tonnes of copper, more than 3,000 tonnes of cobalt, and more than 73,000 ounces of precious metals.
Where does this leave us? What can the City of Greater Sudbury offer to your study on mining and resource development in northern Canada?
We believe very strongly that Sudbury's history and experience provides a unique perspective and significant lessons for new developments such as the Ring of Fire. We believe as well that the federal government has an important role to play in advancing these developments and the entire mining and mineral processing industry in the coming decades. More than ever before, Canada requires a national mining strategy, a policy framework that recognizes the high-tech, research-driven nature of modern mining and positions the resource-rich areas of our country to realize maximum benefits from the riches under our feet.
There is no doubt that the consolidation and expansion of international mining players will continue to have an impact on our resource sector. It is important that global companies be able to invest in Canada, as they are able to access the large amounts of capital required to bring large projects like the Ring of Fire into development and production. At the same time, however, it is critical that the federal government ensure that Canada's natural resources are developed in a way that benefits the region and the province in which they are found. This balance is challenging to achieve, but is critical to the long-term future of our resource sector.
The next 10 to 20 years present an historic opportunity for Canada in terms of mineral development. Global demand for commodities will allow continued expansion of our mining sector, and new discoveries are being readied for development on a regular basis. The challenge for the federal government is to respond with a regulatory regime that protects the legitimate interests of Canadians while encouraging timely development.
At the present time, Canadian mines and mining companies have a technological and political advantage over emerging areas. We need to maintain this momentum by responding aggressively to develop our in situ resources.
As mining opportunities like the Ring of Fire continue to expand in more remote areas of Canada's north, there is a need for the federal government to work proactively to assist in workforce development. These new projects will require thousands of workers directly, and a great number along the supply chain. Local communities, particularly first nations, need active support and capacity-building programs in order to realize the potential of these opportunities. At a macro level, federal policies should allow access for foreign workers when necessary, but they should ensure robust local workforce development prior to moving offshore.
The federal government can also assist by helping communities such as Greater Sudbury and our industry partners to counter the misconceptions and misperceptions of modern mineral development. Today's Canadian mining industry has changed dramatically from the practices of the past and operates in a manner that is sensitive to the environment and to its local host communities. It offers excellent employment opportunities for educated and skilled workers alike, and will provide important economic development opportunities for all of northern Canada.
Mining and mineral processing is an industry that has learned the lessons of the past and adapted to current realities. We need to communicate this message in order to foster the workforce expansion required to meet the Canadian industry's current and future needs. We need to communicate this message in order to create the political will to move projects forward to production with shorter timelines.
To take full advantage of existing and emerging opportunities, strategic infrastructure investments will be required. The federal government must share in these investments, in partnership with other levels of government and the private sector, of course. This new infrastructure development should be strategic, so that it enhances community and economic development in addition to simply meeting the goals of resource development. One example of this infrastructure development is a project in Sudbury called the Maley Drive extension, which we've been trying to put forward for the last few years; this project will simply to take the 15 million tonnes of ore that is moved across our city streets every year and put it on a drive so that is going to be more feasible and easier to handle. Another example would be the transportation corridor to the Ring of Fire. If this were also connected with James Bay, it would be a good way for the federal government to get involved in open access to James Bay and the lower James Bay area.
As you continue to examine the future of mining in northern Canada, we urge you to consider both sides of the mining equation: on the one side, the need to encourage investment and to bring new projects on stream, and on the other, the need to for reasonable regulation to maximize benefits to local communities, to provinces, and to the people of Canada as a whole.
I'd like to thank you for your time and attention this morning.
9:25 a.m.
The Chair Leon Benoit
Thank you very much, Mr. Kilgour.
Thank you all, once again. It was a very diverse set of presentations, and I think we'll learn more that way.
We'll start the process with Mr. Allen, followed by Monsieur Gravelle and then Mr. McGuinty.
Go ahead, please, Mr. Allen, for up to seven minutes.
February 16th, 2012 / 9:25 a.m.
Mike Allen Tobique—Mactaquac, NB
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for being here today.
I would like to start with Mr. Hanson and Noront Resources.
I noticed in your brief that you've spent about $150 million in the Ring of Fire on exploration and development activities, but you also indicate in here that you've filed an application with the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency just this past March. Where do you stand in that process, and how far away do you believe you are from actually starting to develop?
9:25 a.m.
President and Chief Executive Officer, Noront Resources Ltd.
Noront's plan is to be in commercial production by 2016. We have filed our project description with CEAA, and it's already gone out for the first round of public comment. Reasonably speaking, we'd expect that process to last another nine to 12 months before the CEAA process is through.
The final permits for the mine development would be sometime in mid-2013 to the third quarter of 2013. That's the timetable we're working towards.
9:25 a.m.
Mike Allen Tobique—Mactaquac, NB
I understand you've also signed a partnership agreement with the Marten Falls First Nation. What are the basic tenets of that partnership agreement?
Maybe the chief could talk about that agreement. Is there economic development built into it? Is there training for the first nations community? What is in that partnership agreement?
I'd be interested to hear the chief's perspective on that too. If that agreement has been signed, what are they expecting to get out of it?
9:25 a.m.
President and Chief Executive Officer, Noront Resources Ltd.
We had an historic exploration agreement with the community of Marten Falls and we've tried to renew it. I believe the proposal went before chief and council in 2010 for a renewed exploration agreement.
Noront's approach with all of the communities we deal with in the Ring of Fire is that it's unfair to negotiate any impact benefit agreements until we have a feasibility study completed. We hope to have our feasibility study completed in March or April of this year. Once that feasibility study is completed, we'll look at negotiating independent IBAs with all of the affected communities in the Ring of Fire, such as Marten Falls, and with communities that are adjacent to the Ring of Fire, such as Webequie and Nibinamik and Eabametoong and some of the communities that would follow our proposed access road forward.


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In The American, George Clooney plays Jack, a weapons maker for professional assassins and a killer himself, who suddenly finds himself at the opposite end of a gun sight. In many ways, the character fits Clooney: smart, handsome, worldly. But the character is hardly the man, who in addition to being voted "sexiest man alive," is a writer, director, producer and humanitarian. Indeed, as The American director Anton Corbijn told us, Clooney is able to weave all of these identities together: "he's a director's favorite in terms of understanding what a director needs from an actor. He's directed three films and so he knows that it's very important to have an actor who's on set. So George is never in the trailers. He's on set and ready."
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Born in Lexington, Kentucky, Clooney was born into a family of entertainers. His mother was model, his father a TV host and anchorman, and his aunt, the singer Rosemary Clooney. While Clooney briefly flirted with professional sports, playing for the Cincinnati Reds, he was destined to be an entertainer. At age 17, he'd gotten his first part as an extra on the TV series Centennial that was filming in Kentucky. By the 80s, he'd moved out to Los Angeles and was working full-time getting whatever roles he could, from a part on a show E/R to ongoing role on The Facts of Life as a hunky carpenter. But it wasn't really till he stepped into ER as the handsome Dr. Doug Ross in 1994 that his career took off.
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While still on ER, Clooney began to star in movies, such as the thriller The Peacemaker, the rom-com One Fine Day, and the superhero franchise Batman & Robin. But it was his appearance in Stephen Soderbergh's Out of Sight that really made critics sit up and pay attention. As Roger Ebert succinctly put it, "Here Clooney at last looks like a big screen star; the good-looking leading man from television is over with." But Clooney didn't rest on his sexy laurels; rather he used his good looks to help redefine his characters. In Three Kings, Clooney played the rogue officer in Iraq whose handsome face never reveals what's up his sleeve. In The Perfect Storm, he plays Capt. Billy Tyne, a fisherman whose noble front can't cover up his financial woes. And finally in Michael Clayton, his perfectly put-together package of a corporate fixer appears to be unraveling before our very eyes.
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Now to set the picture for the race: For anyone not familiar with the Run Woodstock Hallucination 100 Mile, it is in Pinckney State Park, not far from Ann Arbor, Michigan. The six-loop course, described as "dry and runnable," consists of 16.7-mile dirt-road, horse trail and rail trail loops with an elevation gain of 1301 feet per loop. I knew my pacers would be crucial to my success. I asked my friend Dave if he would pace me again this year. He came out for one loop in the rain and mud last year. I thought for sure he wouldn't sign on again after my "fail" last year. But he graciously accepted and said he would do the third and fourth loop with me.
For my second pacer, I leaned on a man who was partly responsible for my desire to do a 100 miler, Mike, a podcaster, whose show I listed to for years. I remember when he did his first 100-miler and I thought, "Wow, that is amazing that I know someone who has run that far." Mike became a great resource, willing to help me with ultrarunning when I needed it.
I gave my pacers only one demand: I wanted them to lie to me, to tell me I look great when I look like crap, to promise me to do anything to keep me moving forward. I enlisted my husband, Eric, and my best friend, Rhonda, as my crew. Crews are so overlooked and under appreciated. They wait for you for an hour, just to see you for one minute.
Run Woodstock is three days of peace, love and running. They have races of every distance. You can run a 5K, 10K, half marathon, marathon, 50K, 50 mile, 100K and 100 mile. They even have a "natural mile" and of course I saw them on the trail well before I began hallucinating. The race takes place at Hell Creek Ranch, near Hell, Michigan. Yes, you can say you "ran through Hell." It is a weekend of music, bonfires, friends and running, an atmosphere that makes you feel welcome.
A close friend of mine had recently passed away after a battle with cancer. I decided I would dedicate my race to her. Her spirit was with me the entire way. I felt she was an angel on my shoulder; if I almost tripped but recovered, I would say, "Thanks, Joyce." There are different kinds of suffering, her suffering was not chosen, she did not choose to have cancer and, yet, she fought a good fight. And so, I chose to suffer some by the pain inflicted in running 100 miles, in her memory.
The night prior to the race I worked my shift at Hanson's Running Shop. Customers and coworkers wished me luck. At home, I checked Facebook messages, which were lots of well-wishes from friends and family that would keep me going during the race. I updated my cover photo on Facebook to a photo my husband took of me from behind, decked out in my running gear and pack.
Race morning I woke up and checked my Facebook. My pacer Dave had posted a video on my wall of the Black Eyed Peas singing,"I gotta feeling, that tonight's gonna be a good night ..." A huge smile appeared on my face and I started dancing around the living room. This song became my race theme and popped in my head countless times later that day.
My husband and I arrived at the ranch at about 1 p.m. and found our assigned parking space for our RV, a recent purchase that my husband convinced me would be great for my races, which proved to be accurate. I picked up my race packet and bib, then settle back into the RV to watch TV and relax until the start. Just before leaving the RV, I slipped on an orange rubber bracelet a friend gave me last year after my first 100-mile attempt. It simply says the word "remarkable" on it. He felt that even though I had not met my goal, it was still "remarkable" that I would continue on this journey.
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The start was 4 p.m. Five minutes before gun time, I headed into the start corral. I wasn't even nervous. I knew there was no alternative but to finish. I had made my "Quit List." I knew the only reasons would be acceptable for me do drop from this race.
1- a broken bone that was protruding from the skin
2- loss of consciousness for longer than a few minutes
3- not making a cut off (If this happened, I vowed I would give up my bib and finish the race on my own.)
I thought a few of my friends and family might want to track my progress, so I turned my cellphone over to my husband and he updated my Facebook status every four or so miles. What I later found out was that people were checking their computers every hour of the entire race, watching it unfold. I was humbled by the outpouring of comments and concerns as this adventure took place.
The humidity skyrocketed in the first lap and I settled into the camaraderie with the other runners. I had only one goal for the first loop: to finish while the sun was still out. The trail was sandy. The only hazard in the trail was the horse poop. Luckily, I dodged it all. I flew down the hills, which is unusual for me as I am kind of a slow poke on the descents. I reached the stretch flat rail trail with no trip hazards. I put time in the bank here and slowed down when I got back on the trail. After a while we popped back into the woods and then down the path that led to the aid station where Eric and Ronda were waiting. I waved a quick hello and continued on my way. I remembered the trail from two years ago.
By mile 12, I'd made good time. I passed my crew and headed back to the trail and up one of the course's hardest hills that seemed to go on forever. Everything was going well ... until it wasn't. At Mile 15, I stepped off the trail and started vomiting. It came out of nowhere. I didn't even feel sick. As I stood there a few of my friends passed. Thinking my race is over, they asked if I was OK. I said I will be in a minute. They seemed satisfied with my answer and kept running. I might have been stopped for two minutes at most and I knew it would pass. I threw up last year too, but that was mile 46. That was a different story. Last year I took a cup of vegetable soup and swallowed a pea. I hate peas. I think the thought of it alone made me vomit. I have no idea what happened this year. I hadn't tried anything new. No matter, I just wiped my face off with a bandana and headed back to the trail and into the mile 16.6 aid station in the start/finish area during the day's last light. The first lap took me about four hours.
Erik handed me my headlamp and a flashlight and I headed back out, easily following the course markers. I tried to eat again but gag. Luckily there was nothing else in my stomach to vomit. At the next aid station, my crew handed me some Tums. I could only nibble on them. Ronda handed me a ziplock bag with three slices of watermelon, the first thing I was able to keep down (so I ate it at every aid station from then on). I passed some people on the road and trail, some also passed me. No one passed without saying something encouraging. "How's your race going?", "You're doing great", "Keep it up!" We were not competing;we were on the same team. No one made me feel inferior because I was slower than them.
At about 10 p.m. the rain started, just as I expected, and I embraced it. It looked like shards of light in my headlamp. It played tricks on my eyes. I passed a lot of people that hadn't prepared for the conditions. As planned, I embraced the suck. I took hot soup broth at the aid stations. I tell them only broth, no veggies ... they graciously honored my request. I don't want a pea incident like last year.
The second loop was tough as I was alone in the dark. When I arrived at the start/finish to meet my pacer, I was happy. In the dark with my headlamp on, I started singing as loud as I could, hoping to get Dave's attention: "I gotta feeling, that tonight's going to be a good night ..." Halfway through the line, I saw him. He heard me and joined in with a huge smile on his face, ready to tackle his very first ultramarathon. Dave kept me on track and we started passing people, saying encouraging things . We passed 17 people in two laps. I felt strong as he encouraged me.


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The Crew played its home opener beneath slate-gray skies and a partial television blackout yesterday. It was a notable point of embarkation.
There is a new owner, Anthony Precourt, who looks like Bobby Brady and talks like Mark Cuban. There is a new coach and sporting director, Gregg Berhalter, who has revamped the team's roster and its style of play.
So, anticipation was high for the 17,517 in Crew Stadium, especially in the jam-packed Nordecke, and for those watching at home — those who subscribe to Time Warner Cable, that is, and could actually see the game on television.
The Crew's TV deal will remain a central topic of discussion until it is fixed. I, for one, will not let go of it. Currently, anyone in central Ohio who does not have Time Warner service is blacked out of Crew games — home or away, even if you have subscribed to MLS Live or MLS Direct Kick. Some of the Crew's most ardent fans have been alienated, and they are not happy about it.
The situation is a shame because it slows organizational momentum.
Fans have taken to Precourt, who has invested in aging Crew Stadium. The new scoreboard officially was unveiled yesterday and it felt like the old Philco console had been replaced with a gigantic wide-screen model. There is improved seating in the east stands. The team itself has a gleaming new locker room.
The roster has been reconstituted. The last vestiges of the 2008 MLS Cup team — Danny O'Rourke, Andy Gruenebaum and Chad Marshall — have been removed. The new coach and sporting director, Berhalter, has molded a team in an image that Bobby Warzycha could not imagine.
As Berhalter has professed, this Crew team will possess the ball and it will attack. So it did — and did well for 50-plus minutes — en route to a 2-1 victory over the Philadelphia Union last night. The entire atmosphere had the feel of a new era.
"To me, I had that feeling starting in the preseason," said defender Josh Williams, who signed with the Crew in 2010 and is the longest-tenured member of the team.
"It has to do with the way Gregg and his staff approach things," Williams said. "There is an attention to detail that is just unbelievable. It is like nothing I've seen before."
The Crew rolled through the exhibition season with a 4-0-1 record and, two weeks ago, trounced D.C. United 3-0 in the season opener. Yesterday was different. This was not an exhibition — and this Union team is a far better side than United.
"I told the guys this win might have meant more to us than (the one) two weeks ago," Berhalter said. "The adversity we faced, especially in the second half ... I'm proud of the way guys battled. After the first 15 minutes of the second half, it was all Philly."
The Crew got two goals from Bernardo Anor and had a 2-0 lead at halftime. Berhalter still thought the positioning was "off," and he and his staff made adjustments. The Crew dominated the opening minutes of the second half. It could have pushed the lead to three or even four goals with some better finishes. The attack was pointed, even on a night when Federico Higuain was not showing his best form.
"If we want to play like that, there are going to be mistakes," Berhalter said. "The alternative is saying we're not going to play at all."
That type of thinking is incredibly new and wholly refreshing around here.
For the first time in club history, the Crew has opened a season with victories in its first two games. That sounds strange, does it not? Nineteen years the Crew has been at this, 16 years in the nation's first soccer-specific stadium, and this is the first time it has been 2-0.
These are interesting times if you are privy to viewing.
Michael Arace is a sports reporter for The Dispatch.


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