Q97: Before the end of 2016, will a government or company announce that they will build a road or rail line to Ontario's Ring of Fire Belt?
Road: 23%
Railway: 10%
Both: 2%
Neither: 65%
(The proposed road or railway must connect to the existing network. An announcement that a road or rail line "might" be built is not sufficient; there has to be a firm commitment.)
Ontario's Ring of Fire mining belt is currently not connected to the road/rail transportation network. A provincial/federal study was recently announced to examine the idea of a building a transportation corridor that would link up the area (and some nearby First Nations reserves). A road seems to be the preferred option, since it would do a better job of linking the First Nations reserves.
I do not think that a road or rail line will be announced; the Ring of Fire belt has been an issue for several years, and nothing concrete seems to have happened. The general sense seems to be that development is stalled.
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