Nunavut Impact Review Board awaits increased federal funding – Nunatsiaq News
February 11, 2015
“We’ve been really constrained in our core funding for a long time”
Despite a chronic shortage in core funding for the organization he administers, the Nunavut Impact Review Board’s executive director, Ryan Barry, foresees a busy and productive year ahead.
Barry and the rest of the board are meeting in Iqaluit Feb. 9 to Feb. 11 for closed-door internal budgeting and planning sessions.
Those meetings take place three times a year, Barry told Nunatsiaq News during an interview inside the lobby of the Hotel Arctic.
The NIRB’s to-do list for 2015 includes a two-week final hearing this March in Baker Lake for Areva’s proposed Kiggavik uranium mine, legislation changing the board’s operating rules and conditions, and possible public hearings for three major projects seeking amendments to existing project certificates.
