Nunavik community to test its waterfront after fuel spill – Nunatsiaq News
Ivujivik has sent it first batch of samples from its coastline for testing, following a fuel spill in Nunavik’s northernmost community.
The goal is to determine how much the Aug. 1 spill that leaked more than 14,000 litres of fuel from the community’s Hydro-Québec power plant might have contaminated the natural water system.
“We can’t say it’s the biggest fuel spill we’ve seen, but we can say it’s contaminating the stream,” Ivujivik mayor Peter Iyaituk said Aug. 5. “[Hydro-Québec] is doing a good job cleaning up the land, but the bigger concern is the bay.”
“They say that it’s a floater and it will dissipate,” he said. “But our concern is that the tide goes up and down every six hours, and brings stuff in and out with it.”
