Baffinland has posted on social media every time it's noted a cruise ship going more than nine knots, which is the mining company's own speed limit for its contracted vessels. On Sept. 13, it posted about a cruise ship sailing at 13.8 knots speeds it called "troubling."
North Baffin residents continued to voice concerns about plans to expand the Mary River iron mine’s operations during a public hearing on Thursday. The
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Day one of the Nunavut Impact Review Board s final public hearings into Baffinland s Phase 2 expansion proposal at its Mary River Mine began Monday, April 12 in Iqaluit. (Nick Murray/CBC News)
Nunavut s Qikiqtaaluk communities are still concerned about the impact on marine wildlife if production ramps up at the Mary River Mine.
The issue was brought up Monday in Iqaluit during the first day of the final public hearings into Baffinland s Phase 2 expansion proposal.
Baffinland is requesting to double its shipping of iron ore from its Milne Inlet port to 12 million tonnes a year, which would see around 168 ships sail through waters near Pond Inlet, Nunavut, a summer home to one of the world s largest narwhal populations.