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Ringed seals under consideration for listing under Species at Risk Act 'This small seal needs sea ice to thrive, wrote the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada, or COSEWIC, which declared ringed seals a species of special concern in November of 2019. Social Sharing CBC News · Posted: Apr 07, 2021 3:00 AM CT | Last Updated: April 7 Lew Philip and Joshua Kango walk by a ring seal they caught through the ice on Frobisher Bay near Iqaluit in 2003. 'The ringed seal has seemed to be doing well now and remains abundant in the Arctic, but in some local areas, Inuit have observe...

Posted: Feb 01, 2021 11:26 AM CT | Last Updated: February 1 Udlu Hanson, Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation's vice president of community development, says royalties and benefits from a proposed mine expansion at Mary River can help with food insecurity and overcrowded homes. The money is not meant to compensate Inuit for damage to the environment, she said. (Submitted by Baffinland) Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation says its proposed expansion of the Mary River Mine on north Baffin Island won't cause any lasting harm to marine mammals in the area, despite concerns from some Inuit and environ...

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 Monda...

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 i...

Pond Inlet calls for slow increase to iron ore output at Mary River Mine Final hearings for an expansion at Mary River Mine start in Pond Inlet, Nunavut, in two weeks, and the community’s municipal council says it is prepared to support the project if the mine owners agree to gradual production increases. Social Sharing CBC News · Posted: Jan 13, 2021 4:00 AM CT | Last Updated: January 13 The Hamlet of Pond Inlet says a slow increase in the amount of ore shipped from Mary River Mine each year would help Inuit monitor environmental impacts. Baffinland wants to double production from six m...