Lucy Tulugarjuk with a guest Isabelle Gilles discuss the Mary River Phase 2 Technical Hearings that took place in June, 2019 in Iqaluit. In this show they talk about the topics of the social impacts of the mine on the community and the effect of the mine on women. They also discuss effects of the mine on narwhale, the speed of the speed of the ships, and black carbon.
My Father's Land (Ataatama Nunanga), Igloolik Isuma Productions and Kingulliit Productions, 1995, 2002, 2014, Directors Zacharias Kunuk, Norman Cohn. Inuktut and English with English subtitles.
Mixing scenes from past and present, My Father's Land looks at the meanings between Inuit history and modern mining in North Baffin Island; how new media is used to inform and consult Inuit leading up to July 2012 Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB) Final Public Hearings on Baffinland's $6 billion Mary River proposal to build the world's largest iron mine on Inuit land between Igloolik and Pond … Leer más
Zacharias Kunuk with Lloyd Lipsett, Formal Intervention, NIRB Technical Hearing, July 23, 2012, Igloolik, Part 1/2 3:13 English Version. Zacharias Kunuk, speaking Inuktitut, describes his childhood growing up in the heart of the Baffinland mining region, going to school in English, eventually becoming a filmmaker.… Leer más
Zacharias Kunuk with Lloyd Lipsett, Formal Intervention, NIRB Technical Hearing, July 23, 2012, Igloolik, Part 2/2 1:18 English Version. Zacharias Kunuk concludes his and Lloyd Lipsett's presentation calling for up to date media technology and an Interactive Multimedia Human Rights Impact Assessment.
On this panel speakers give examples of the adoption of FPIC policies by corporations and industry bodies, why different sectors of business such as finance and extractive corporations may have an interest in adopting FPIC, and the challenges that remain.
Moderated by Alan Young, this panel features Lina Holguin, Francois Meloche, and Ian Thomson.
The Canadian Women's Foundation has released a report on the impact resource extraction is having on Inuit women and their families in the Qamani'tuaq region of Nunavut.
Here is a playlist with a sample of videos uploaded through the mediaplayers installed in the Nunavut communities of Igloolik, Arviat, and Cambridge Bay.… Leer más
