Sinking arena may need to move

The only way to save Iqaluit’s sinking Arctic Winter Games arena may be to move it, according to the city’s chief administrative officer.

“It could actually come to moving the building,” Fremantle said during budget meetings this week.

Currently water sloshes beneath the ground under the arena, eroding the foundations of about one-third of the building, Fremantle said. Consultants suggest that part of the building could be supported by sinking posts into bedrock, but Fremantle said another solution could be to move the building, or build an extension at one end of it.

“Either way, it’s not going to come cheap.”