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NITV forbidden from rebroadcasting Baffinland hearing – Nunatsiaq News

Apr 12, 2021

‘We want to find out who is censoring us,’ says Zacharias Kunuk

Nunavut Independent Television is blasting a decision that forbids it from rebroadcasting the hearing on the plans of Baffinland Iron Mines Corp. to expand its Mary River mine.

“We know we are being censored. We want to find out who is censoring us,” said Igloolik filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk, who is an NITV board member, in a Monday news release.

Kunuk’s comments came after the Nunavut Impact Review Board told NITV that the hearings on the Mary River mine expansion can only be streamed live, with prior permission, and cannot be rebroadcast.

That applies to the hearing now underway in Iqaluit and to earlier parts of the hearing, the NIRB said.

Read More: https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/nitv-forbidden-from-rebroadcasting-baffinland-hearing/

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