Dans ce cas spécifique, ce sont des membres de la nation Innu qui bloquent la route qui mène aux mines de LMH et de NMIC. Les Innus protestent contre le Plan Nord et c'est leur façon de se faire entendre.
Qui peut les blâmer?
Ce sont ni les Innus, ni les Québécois qui profiteront des richesses issues de ces mines.
Ceux qui profiteront de ces mines sont des transnationales ÉTRANGÈRES, parfois basées ailleurs dans le Canada mais à propriété étrangère (partielle ou complète). Autrement dit, malgré les "opérations" au Québec, ça n'a à peu près rien de Québécois!
Voici donc un article qui parle du blocus des Innus...
On Tuesday members of the Innu were blocking a main road to Labrador Mines Holdings Ltd. (TSX:T.LIM, Stock Forum), New Millenium Iron Corp. (TSX:T.NML, Stock Forum)and several other mining companies in a protest against the Quebec resource development plan known as Plan Nord.
The Labrador Iron Mines property in Schefferville is currently a full-scale mining operation. Its wholly-owned James Mine is located in the western central part of the iron-rich Labrador Trough. Since production began on April 2, 2012, the mine has produced 400,000 tonnes of iron ore. The company aims to increase production to five million tonnes of iron ore annually by 2015.
“The road to the mine site is the road that is blocked,” said Rod Cooper, President of Labrador Iron Mines. “We cannot effectively bring supplies or people through the barricade, but we’re not in Quebec, we’re in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador and have rail access there, so at the moment we’re only minimally affected.”
In an interview with Stockhouse, Cooper said members of the blockade are holding signs that oppose Plan Nord.
On Tuesday, Labrador Mines was trading at $2.65 a share. The company has a market cap of $178.6 million shares, based on $67.4 million shares outstanding. The 52-week high and low was $12.47 and $2.47 respectively.
Plan Nord is an economic strategy launched by the government of Quebec in May 2011. The strategy’s focus is on the development of the natural resources extraction sector in the part of Quebec north of the 49th parallel. The goal is to preserve half of northern Quebec, while allowing sustainable mining and forestry in the other half.
According to published reports, in the past Plan Nord has been opposed by the Innu because the agreement has a clause that allows specific protected areas to become available for mining and gas exploitation if such resources are found.
Road access to properties that are being explored by New Millennium is also being restricted by the blockade. They include New Millenium’s Iron Range project, which consists of two deposits that stretch 210 kilometres from western Labrador to eastern Quebec. New Millennium is working with Tata Steel Minerals Canada Ltd. to develop the deposits, together known as the Taconite project, where already nine billion tonnes of NI 43-101 compliant resources have been confirmed.
“We don’t know specifically what the problem is, or who the real target is,” said Dean Journeaux, President and CEO of New Millennium. ”But once you block the road you affect everybody.”
Journeaux is hoping the problem will be resolved amicably by the end of the week.
Joueneaux said the number of people thought to be involved in the protest may be as high as 30. “It’s not a big crowd, but there are a few people involved.”
On Tuesday, New Millennium was trading for $1.60 a share. The company has a market cap of $285.2 million shares, based on $178.2 million shares outstanding. The 52-week high and low was $3.23 and $0.90 respectively.