QIA and mine company working out Inuit Impact and Benefits Agreement
The Qikiqtani Inuit Association is keeping quiet about negotiations it is having with Baffinland Iron Mines about the company’s iron ore mine at Mary River.
The Overpass Light Brigade brought their LED letters to help the Lac Courte Oreilles Tribe to protest proposed mining in Wisconsin. An American contribution to the Idle No More movement.
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"Conservation and Collaboration": Indigenous communities in Canada, threatened with encroaching development from mining and logging companies, using innovative approaches to partnership to implement their conservation vision on their lands.Uqalimakkanirit
ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Moshi Kotierk, NIRB Community Roundtable, July 25, 2012 Igloolik, 4:38 Inuktitut, on the issue of public confidence, 'Does the public have confidence in you?'
Moshi Kotierk, NIRB Community Roundtable, July 25, 2012 Igloolik, 4:38 English version, on the issue of public confidence, 'Does the public have confidence in you?'
ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Gamaillie Qiluqisaq, NIRB Community Roundtable, July 20 2012, Iqaluit, 3:51 Inuktitut, asks why mining royalties only flow to NTI and Inuit organizations or governments but not directly to the impacted communities like Pond Inlet.
ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Okalik Ejitsiak, NIRB Community Roundtable, July 20, 2012, Iqaluit, 6:33 Inuktitut, response by QIA President to Gamaillie Qiluqisaq's comment about royalties to Inuit organizations but not to communities.
Curtis Taqqaugaq, NIRB Community Roundtable, July 25, 2012, Igloolik, 6:04 original English. Curtis is Igloolik Youth Representative and presents his comments on the Baffinland Mary River Development from the youth point of view.
