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June
4, 2004
Red tape delays Doris North mine
Miramar Mining Corporation will not start work on the Doris North mine until
2006, a company press release said this week.
The company cites the uncertainty of the federal election as one factor holding
up the proposed gold mine at Hope Bay. Permit delays are also holding up the
project.
The Nunavut Impact Review Board was to have held a final round of public hearings
on the project next week. Instead, they will hold the meetings July 11 to 16.
Miramar president and CEO Tony Walsh said he is "disappointed" with
the delay, but still expects NIRB to complete its review this summer. But more
delays could push the start date even further into the future.
"We continue to be encouraged that, after 26 months of meetings and input
from the public, regulators and other stakeholders, no party has asserted that
the mine should not be permitted for production," Walsh said in the release.
If the hearings are positive, DIAND will be next to give its rubber stamp to
the project, before the Nunavut Water Board begins its review.
June
4, 2004
GN and NTI renew partnership deal
Premier Paul Okalik and NTI President Paul Kaludjak signed a new deal governing
the working relationship between the government of Nunavut and Nunavut Tunngavik
Inc. last Friday.
The agreement, called Iqqanaijaqatigiit, comes five years after the Clyde River
protocol was first signed, and is intended to brings new clarity to the relationship
between the two groups, which have both evolved in the last five years.
Okalik is to table the agreement in the legislative assembly.
June
4, 2004
Arviat celebrates 21 high school grads
Twenty-one high school students graduated from Arviat's Qitiqliq High School
last Saturday, the second-highest number outside of Iqaluit, where 24 people
graduated on the same day.
In Cambridge Bay, 14 students graduated, also on Saturday, one of whom has
been blind since birth.
Cambridge Bay MLA Keith Peterson offered Ashlee Otokiak, and the teachers who
helped him, a special tribute on the big day.
June
4, 2004
Nunavut's own journeyman carpenters
Six journeyman carpenters graduate from Nunavut Arctic College in Iqaluit today,
becoming the first carpenters to be trained in Nunavut.
The graduates are now eligible to write their Red Seal Interprovincial exams,
qualifying them to work in any province in Canada.
The graduates are: Jimmy Nattaq of Iqaluit, Lino Aqatsiaq of Igloolik, Alexander
Alooq of Rankin Inlet (originally of Baker Lake), James Karetak of Iqaluit (originally
Arviat), Jason Shingoose of Baker Lake and Christopher Lahure of Baker Lake.
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