Igloolik’s community roundtables at least 20 minutes too short: Mary River final hearings
Final hearings on the Mary River project ended in Igloolik yesterday—too soon, said some community members who participated in community roundtable discussions. Ex-mayor and IIBA negotiator Paul Quassa opened Tuesday’s discussions with a speech on Iglulimmiut’s long history of settlement at the proposed port site, Steensby Inlet, or Ikpikitturjuaq, and their changing relationship with the […]
Baffinland should participate in human rights impact assessment: intervenors Lloyd Lipsett and Zacharias Kunuk on day 1 of Igloolik hearings
Final hearings for the Mary River project continued in Igloolik today—one of the first summery days of the season—in the Attaguttaaluk high school gym. As ice cleared from the bay at the centre of town, hunters and families fuelled up their boats and Mayor Nick Arnatsiaq gave a warm welcome to presenters, saying, “this […]
Makivik had time to engage in Mary River review, says Baffinland: final hearings day 4
In its final hearing presentation yesterday, Makivik said it believes Baffinland’s 330m-long, double-hulled icebreaking ships could easily veer more than 30km from the proposed shipping lane and enter the south Hudson Strait—Nunavik waters—doing serious damage to the area’s indigenous marine life. And even if tides, ice conditions, currents or avoidance of other vessels or whale […]
Mary River hearing day 3: QIA pushes for marine, terrestrial, socioeconomic working groups
Mostly North Baffin Inuit from Igloolik, Pond Inlet, Arctic Bay and Clyde River remained at Iqaluit’s Cadet Hall last night to hear the end of government intervenors’ technical presentations on the Mary River project, nearly ten hours behind schedule. Submissions by the government of Nunavut department of Environment, Environment Canada (EC) and the Department of […]
QIA requests more studies, monitoring and discussion in Igloolik on fuel storage at Steensby
In contrast to NTI’s nine-minute contribution to final hearings on the Mary River project (NIRB allotted 20 minutes for its presentation), QIA took a thorough, critical and aggressive stance in its hearing presentation on a number of issues, such as socioeconomics, impacts on land and marine mammals, ballast water, the port at Steensby Inlet, Inuit […]
Read more:
- Socioeconomic impacts, uncertain benefits in Mary River’s second day of hearings
- Mary River’s final hearings: Iqaluit, day 1
- Inuit-owned contracts: Q&A with Simon Merkosak, Pond Inlet entrepreneur
- Pond Inletmiut at the mine site, then and now
- Pond Inlet and the NLCA: Q&A with Malachi Arreak, former IIBA negotiator
