GN calls for federal investigation into Agnico Eagle’s Meadowbank mine – Nunatsiaq News
Nov 3, 2022
Environment Department says the company isn’t following some caribou protection measures
Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. failed to implement caribou protection measures for four years in a row, according to a senior GN official who wants a federal investigation into the matter.
Jimmy Noble Jr., the deputy minister of the territory’s Environment Department, sent a letter Oct. 17 detailing the issue to the federal Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs and the Nunavut Impact Review Board.
He said Agnico Eagle had agreed to close both roads to the company’s Meadowbank gold mine, located 110 kilometres from Baker Lake, to all traffic if 12 or more caribou are within 1.5 kilometres of crossing between April 1 to May 25, and Sept. 16 to Dec. 7.
The company uses a collar program to alert it when caribou are nearby.
