Uranium mine proposal in Nunavut spurs debate about caribou herd – The Globe and Mail
Mar. 01 2015
Huli Tagoona was just a girl the first time uranium miners proposed to develop a massive deposit of the radioactive metal near her home town of Baker Lake, Nunavut.
“I was about 11,” she says. “I spent many an hour listening to [presentations], spending time at the hearings.”
Now, at 37, she’s about to relive her childhood as final hearings begin Monday before the Nunavut Impact Review Board on a second proposal to eventually build a mine on the tundra. As a spokeswoman for the anti-uranium group Makitagunarningit, her opinion on it hasn’t changed.
“Our big concern is the caribou and their calving grounds.”
