Final hearings to begin for Kiggavik uranium mine near Baker Lake – CBC
Mar 02, 2015
Areva’s proposal for underground and open-pit mines before Nunavut Impact Review Board
Hilu Tagoona was just a girl the first time uranium miners proposed to develop a massive deposit of the radioactive metal near her home town of Baker Lake, Nunavut.
“I was about 11,” she says. “I spent many an hour listening to (presentations), spending time at the hearings.”
Now, at 37, she’s about to relive her childhood as final hearings begin this week before the Nunavut Impact Review Board on a second proposal to eventually build a mine on the tundra. As a spokeswoman for the anti-uranium group Makitagunarningit, her opinion on it hasn’t changed.
