INAC funds new industry.Thunder Bay's Fort William First Nation Fort William First Nation is an Ojibwa community adjacent to Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. It has a citizen-based not-for-profit environmental group called Anishinabek of the Gitchi Gami. has received $217,400 from Indian and Northern Affairs Canada The Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (FIP: Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, French: Affaires indiennes et du Nord Canada, DIAND (INAC INAC Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (government) INAC Instituto Nacional de Aviación Civil (Spanish) INAC Instituto Nacional de Carnes (Spanish: National Meat Institute, Uruguay) ) programs for new industry that includes a proposed dry painting operation and a rebar company. Pelletier's Powder Coating is developing a dry painting operation specializing in decorative finishes for industrial goods with $99,000 from the Economic Development Opportunity Fund (EDOF EDoF Extended Depth of Field (cameras) EDOF Effective Degrees of Freedom EDOF Extended Depth of Focus ). The band has also received $24,900 from EDOF to help start Pro Rebar Inc., a new Thunder Bay company that specializes in concrete reinforcement and structures. A Resource Access Negotiation (RAN) grant of $47,900 was allocated to Fort William First Nation to develop a strategic plan to attract more businesses to the reserve. The band will also be able to study the possibility of a fish processing plant on reserve land with $45,600 in funding. |
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