The head of the Environmental Quality Committee on mining says it doesn’t seem right that a recently-announced mining road will likely get finished ahead of the proposed all-weather road to Wollaston Lake.
Norman Wolverine says the proposed all-weather road project that would connect Wollaston Lake to the rest of the province was announced years ago.
Yet plans are already being made to connect the McArthur River mine to the Cigar Lake mine.
He says it’s not right that that project gets shuffled ahead of a community road project that would improve the lives of many grass-roots residents:
“Well we all know the people living in the north are secondary because the population is only a handful compared to what it is in the south. Anything in the northern district, northern administrative line, anything north of that is secondary and it shouldn’t be. We feel that we don’t belong to the province because of these things.”
Wolverine says he hopes the government is willing to come to the table to discuss the issue.