Tag Archives: Baffinland

The Nunavut Impact Review board has recommended Baffinland’s Phase 2 expansion not be allowed to proceed. In a letter to Dan Vandal, the federal northern affairs minister, Nunavut Impact Review Board chair Kaviq Kaluraq said the mine has the potential for “significant adverse ecosystemic effects” on marine mammals, fish, caribou and other wildlife, which in …

Nunavut hunters and environmental groups say shipping activity from Baffinland’s Mary River mine is having a real and potentially lasting effect on narwhal numbers in the area. They’re calling on the mining company to, again, alter its shipping plans this year as a precaution.    In a letter to Nunavut regulators last week, the Pond …