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Sudbury wins?

By Leith Dunick, tbnewswatch.com

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  Leith Dunick, tbnewswatch.com 
  Thunder Bay Mayor Keith Hobbs.

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Mayor Keith Hobbs said the writing’s been on the wall for a year or more, and the message isn’t a good one for Thunder Bay.
Hobbs was reacting Wednesday to news that Cliffs Natural Resources’ announcement that the mining giant in planning to proceed with its best case scenario location for a much-sought after ferrochrome processing plant and expects to make Sudbury the official location in a matter of weeks.
He called the decision disappointing, though hasn’t entirely given up hope the project and 500 jobs can be salvaged for Thunder Bay.
“We wouldn’t be surprised by that,” Hobbs said. “The Northwest, NOMA and the City of Thunder Bay, we were all prepared for that.

“When we went to Cliffs last year in Cleveland and met with them, they told us that when they found out the Kinghorn (rail) line was gone, that we dropped from base case to maybe second base case. So it wouldn’t be a surprise if it went to Sudbury at all.”
 
This is a developing story. More to follow…