Nunavut review board invites input on Baffinland expansion proposal – Nunatsiaq News

July 23, 2015

Review board must decide if proposed changes warrant reconsideration of company’s project certificate

The Nunavut Impact Review Board has launched a call for input on Baffinland Iron Mines Corp.’s proposal to increase iron ore production and shipping at its Mary River mine.

That’s since the proposal landed at the review board’s doorstep last week, after a decision by federal Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development minister Bernard Valcourt to exempt the proposal from the North Baffin Regional Land Use Plan and send it to the NIRB for an environmental assessment.

Earlier this year, the Nunavut Planning Commission decided the mining company’s proposal did not conform to that plan.

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