Posted: Jan 27, 2021 4:00 AM CT | Last Updated: January 27
Clyde River Mayor Jerry Natanine says until Pond Inlet is comfortable with a production expansion at Mary River Mine, the other surrounding communities won t support the project. (Beth Brown/CBC)
At the outset of the final environmental hearings for an expansion at Nunavut s Mary River Mine, five communities in the territory s northern Qikiqtaaluk region are saying they can t support the project as it is being proposed.
For those communities especially Pond Inlet, which is nearest to the mine the primary concern is what impact a new railway and increased shipping from Milne Inlet could have on local wildlife like caribou and narwhal.