Zacharias Kunuk talks about Inuit concerns with the proposed $6 billion Baffinland Iron Mine in Nunavut. Kunuk is an award-winning filmmaker, Igloolik Hamlet Councilor, Officer of the Order of Canada and recently-elected Board member to Qikiqtani Inuit Association (QIA).
Acquiring knowledge ∙ Speaking your mind ∙ Talking it over ∙ Deciding together
Tusaumatitauniq ∙ Uqalaqatauniq ∙ Uqqamajaqatiginiq ∙ Angiqatigingniq
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Zacharias Kunuk on Inuit efforts to be informed and consulted about Baffinland Iron Mine Corp. $6 billion proposed development in north Baffin Island.
May 16, 2012: LISTEN LIVE FROM 8 PM to 10PM A CALL-IN SHOW ABOUT NUNAVUT IMPACT REVIEW BOARD (NIRB), with Igloolik Community Radio Online. Zach Kunuk and Human Rights lawyer Lloyd Lipsett. Click on the link below to listen live or get schedule information.
Community radio online is the first step in DID's pilot project, Angiqatigingniq Deciding Together, to adapt today's media communication tools to the traditional Inuit skill of listening respectfully to different points of view until reaching one unified decision everyone can support.
Angiqatigingniq Deciding Together and Nipivut Nunatinnii Our Voice at Home link seven Baffin Island communities facing development of a $6 billion iron mine, railroad and deep-water port for supertanker shipping by Baffinland Iron Mine Corporation (BIM), 70% owned by Luxembourg-based ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steel-maker. Deciding Together through new media gives Inuit communities more power and influence at upcoming Public Hearings and the negotiating table with Baffinland and government agencies.
DID now is fully financed for 2012-13 for $1.35 million from Canada Media Fund Experimental Stream and project partners including Nunavut Independent Television (NITV), Municipality of Igloolik, Nunavut Department of Culture, Language, Elders and Youth (CLEY), Carlton University Centre for Innovation and Mt. Allison University.
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by samcc
Listen tonight to Episode 4 of Nipivut Nunatinnii Our Voice at Home, the open-line call-in radio series on Baffinland and Inuit rights, on Igloolik Community Radio Online, May 16, 2012, starting at 8 pm EST until approximately 10:30 pm ONLINE at at www.isuma.tv/DID/radio/igloolik.
This show focuses on Nunavut Impact Review Board, it's...
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by samcc
May 14th,
This past week, Iqaluit was the stage for Baffinland’s three-day technical meetings regarding the Mary River iron mine and it’s potential impacts. The meetings only reinforced the belief that more time is needed to discuss the key issues such as the location of the Steensby Inlet port, and the environmental impacts of a railway and a year-round shipping route. The...
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by samcc
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.
I attached an English version, and their Inuktitut version which is in syllabics.
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by samcc
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.
He founded the Mittal Steel Company in 1976 in Calcutta, India. In 2006 the...
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by samcc
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. Carleton University archaeologist Sylvie LeBlanc considers it the longest intact chain of inuksuit in the world; some are over 4,500...
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Inuit consensus – "deciding together" – may be the strongest power communities can bring to negotiating with governments and transnational corporations. DID uses internet, community radio, local TV and social media to amplify Inuit traditional decision-making skills at a moment of crisis and opportunity, as Inuit face Environmental Review of the $6 billion Baffinland Iron Mine (BIM) on north Baffin Island. Through DID, Inuit adapt "deciding together" to get needed information in language they understand, talk about their concerns publicly and reach collective decisions with the power of consensus. Inuit consensus will be expressed publicly in a multimedia Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA), looking at the positive and negative impacts of the proposed mine in terms of international human rights standards and best practices, and then presented to the regulatory process, online through IsumaTV and through local radio and TV channels in all Nunavut communities.
