The project is expected to reduce fuel use on the mine by approximately 50 per cent, according to the company's proposal, but some community members in the region raised concerns over its impact on wildlife.
Leaders of a hunters and trappers association in Taloyoak, Nunavut, fear an Arctic expedition truck that sank in one of their prime hunting grounds is contaminating animals that are known to migrate through the area including beluga whales, narwhals, seals, walruses and Arctic char.
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TALOYOAK, NU, Feb. 20, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) On the coast of Aviqtuuq, the Nunavut hamlet of Taloyoak is home to 1,100 residents and one $500,000 Arctic Inspiration Prize for their food sovereignty project. WWF-Canada is proud to have helped support the community in developing this prize-winning proposal as well as other ongoing environmental initiatives.
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, which means our food in Inuktitut, was the winning submission from Taloyoak s Spence Bay Hunter & Trapper Association (the community was formerly called Spence Bay) and seeks to create a country-food economy in the most northern community on Canada s mainland.
Country food is the term for what s caught locally as opposed to expensive store food flown up from the south, but it is becoming increasingly inaccessible due to poverty, climate change and cultural loss.
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