Mining Worldwide

March 20, 2011 I would like to talk about an important void in these discussions onmining, which is sustainability. Sustainability includes having aclear vision for Nunavut as a healthy ecosystem, a healthy and vibrantsociety that is strong in its cultural roots. The very basis of Inuitculture is sustainability which includes respect for all that isaround…

letter to the editor Nunatsiaq News March 31, 2011 The editorial “On uranium, don’t look for simple answers” (March 28) asks “What, exactly, does … ‘political oppression’ consist of?” Oppression consists of residents of Baker Lake who voted to oppose the proposed Kiggavik uranium mine in a municipal plebiscite in 1990 — the only free…

  30 JAN 2012: REPORT   Canada’s Nunavut Territory is the largest undisturbed wilderness in the Northern Hemisphere. It also contains large deposits of uranium, generating intense interest from mining companies and raising concerns that a mining boom could harm the caribou at the center of Inuit life. by ed struzik   Until her semi-nomadic…

by Rachel Cernansky Energy / Energy Police January 30, 2012 If you travel to Nunavut, a territory in Canada that stretches from the mainland to nearly the North Pole, you can encounter—because it’s so remote and has so few roads—caribou herds migrating freely that are among the biggest in the world. Between 65,000 and 400,000 animals or more live…

INDIGENOUS POLITICSWARREN BERNAUER | February 3rd 2012 Baker Lake is a small and mostly Inuit community. The only inland community in Nunavut, it is located west of Hudson Bay, near the geographic centre of Canada. Its Inuktitut name is Qamani’tuaq (“where the river widens”). Baker Lake is in what is referred to today as the…