Nunavut regulatory org says no to Baffinland – Nunatsiaq News

April 09, 2015

Expanded shipping, and ice-breaking, contravenes land use plan: NPC

The Nunavut Planning Commission has chosen to protect Arctic ice — and all it delivers and represents to the people and animals of Nunavut — over industrial development.

In a bold move announced April 8 that will impact how Baffinland Iron Mines Corp. operates its Mary River iron mine in north Baffin, NPC directors have decided unanimously that the mining company’s amended project proposal does not conform to the North Baffin Regional Land Use Plan (NBRLUP).

This is the first time the NPC has ever issued a non-conformity decision.

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