Posted: Jan 29, 2021 11:54 AM CT | Last Updated: January 29
Lori Idlout is technical advisor for the Ikajutit Hunters and Trappers Organization. She says it feels like the Nunavut Impact Review Board is using a Baffinland bulldozer to speed technical hearings along. (Beth Brown/CBC)
Tensions continue between Baffinland and Inuit leaders at an expansion hearing for the Mary River mine, but yesterday it was the organization running the technical hearing that participants were frustrated with.
As the hearing agenda falls behind — on Friday morning participants were still working through Monday's scheduled presentations — the Nunavut Impact Review board has begun restricting the number of questions each party can ask for Baffinland, per presentation.