Kitikmeot Inuit Association president Stanley Anablak says he's hopeful the Hope Bay gold mine in western Nunavut will soon gear up again, and that its former Inuit employees will be able to get back to work.
iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on May 12, 2021 11:12am Enbridge offices (Mack Male via Flickr)
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Wednesday is a critical day for Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline. May 12 marks 180 days since Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer “gave notice that the state was terminating a 1953 easement for the pipeline,” which carries oil to refineries in Ontario through Wisconsin and Michigan. Whitmer said Line 5 “poses an unacceptable risk of a catastrophic oil spill,” the National Observer reports.
Alternative modes of transport for the crude Line 5 currently transports are not favourable, according to Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan.
Using 18-wheelers, boats, and railway cars to transport oil would be “messy, polluting, and expensive,” O’Regan told CTV News Channel’s Power Play on Tuesday. “That’s a contingency plan that I don’t want to have to bank on.”
Agnico Eagle Mining Ltd. plans to stick to a schedule of reduced operations into 2022 for its recently acquired Hope Bay gold mine, says general manager