Nunavut hunters block mine road, airstrip; say their voices aren’t being heard – MRO Magazine
February 8, 2021
side of Nunavut’s Baffin Island before sending it out to sea.
On Thursday night, after travelling about 150 kilometres by snowmobile over two days, Inuarak and other hunters from Pond Inlet and Arctic Bay blocked that road and an air strip used to fly workers in and out of the Mary River mine site.
The mine, owned by Baffinland Iron Mines Corp., wants to double its output to 12 million tonnes from six million tonnes and build a 110-kilometre railway to take the ore out to the coast. The railway would be the only one in Nunavut and the most northern one in Canada.
Inuarak, his group and other community members are against the proposed expansion and worry about its effects on wildlife and the environment.
