These groups have employed a strategy of attempting to overwhelm the USFW with proposals to list hundreds of plant and animal species that exist in abundance over large geographic areas that are home to oil and gas exploration, wind farm development, major solar installations, highway projects and other significant human development projects.
Plan Nord infrastructure development includes as a key focus extending provincial highway route 167 into the Otish Mountains, a move that is seen as a positive step for the development of mining in Quebec.
Weinberg also states that a feasibility study for a Bluefields-Nueva Guinea highway has been completed by the Danish development agency DANIDA, linking two towns in the Southern Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAS), with a further link foreseen to Monkey Point (which lies south of Bluefields, the RAAS seat).