Timeline
2023 - FEBRUARY
Baffinland CEO Brian Penney announces plan to ship ore from its Mary River mine in Nunavut using a railway south to Steensby Inlet, approved in Phase 1.
2022 - NOVEMBER
Northern Affairs minister rejects Baffinland Iron Mine Corporation’s Phase 2 Expansion
2022 - MAY
Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB) rejects Baffinland’s 2018 request, stating the expansion of the mine would potentially incur “ significant and lasting negative effects on marine mammals and marine environment, fish, caribou and other territorial wildlife, vegetation and fresh water”, and that “ these negative effects could also impact Inuit harvesting, culture, land use and food security”.
