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Full story see baffinlandwitness.com. May 24, 2012. Q&A with international human rights lawyer Lloyd Lipsett. On May 23, the Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB) granted intervenor status to international human rights lawyer, Lloyd Lipsett, on behalf of IsumaTV’s Zacharias Kunuk.… Leer más

DID News Alert May 18, 2012. The Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB) has sent out a list of the key issues that will be discussed during the final community hearings in July.… Leer más

DID News Alert May 17, 2012. After Iqaluit technical meetings, Baffinland claim Steensby Inlet still only viable port.

DID News Alert May 11, 2012. For anyone who is interested in reading the Nunavut Impact Review Board's (NIRB) official policies and standards, particularly relating to the July community hearings, this is their document where all that information is. It is 27 pages. 

Interesting video by Memorial University professors John Sandlos and Arn Keeling talking about the abandoned Pine Point zinc mine, on the south shore of the Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories. The mine was opened from 1964 to 1988. 

DID News Alert May 10, 2012. I thought I would shed a little light on who the owner of ArcelorMittal is, the company that owns Baffinland. The chairman and CEO of ArcelorMittal is Lakshimi Mittal. According to Forbes magazine, he is the 21st richest person in the world and the 47th most powerful. He has a net worth of $20.7 billion dollars.

 Click on this link www.isuma.tv/hi/en/did/radio/igloolik to listen AGAIN (Part 2) to Zacharias Kunuk and Human Rights lawyer Lloyd Lipsett on Igloolik public radio talk about the Baffinland Iron Mine, the NIRB Public Hearings and Inuit Human Rights.

The show goes on air live Thursday, May 10 at 8pm Eastern Time.

"ArcelorMittal's status as the world's leading steel and mining company is a source of intense pride, both personally and for our employees," comments Lakshmi N. Mittal, Chairman and CEO, ArcelorMittal.… Leer más

DID News Alert May 10, 2012. A new concern has been raised about Baffinland’s proposed 150-kilometre railway from the mine to Steensby Inlet. The railway will run along a chain of roughly 100 inuksuit that extends for over six kilometres near the mouth of Steensby Inlet.… Leer más