Igloolik Radio Working Channel

Frances Abele discusses how NIRB will make a decision to recommend a decision as to whether the Mary River Project will proceed or not and what the terms will be.

Frances Abele answers the question: what are some of the challenges with relying on, for example, the environmental impact statement from a proponent or a mining company for information about impacts and then also in order to monitor changes over time and in the future?

Frances Abele answers the question: Could you comment on the importance of research and data to support these panels and boards like NIRB in making good decisions on projects like Mary River?

Frances Abele answers the question: Why are baseline studies important for assessing the impacts of major resource development projects like Baffin Land’s Mary River Project?

Rhoda Katsak answers the question (in English and Inuktitut): Is there anything else you would like listeners to know about the socio-economic monitoring committees?

Rhoda Katsak answers the question (in English and Inuktitut): The socio-economic monitoring committees send a report to NIRB - how do the socio-economic monitoring committees fit within the bigger picture of monitoring and assessment in Nunavut?

Rhoda Katsak answers the question (in English and Inuktitut): Do the socio-economic monitoring committee members – like the mayor or the council members that sit on the committee- report back to their communities about what was said at their meetings?

Rhoda Katsak answers this question (in English): Do the committees members decide which indicators are important to measure? In other words, how do the socio-economic monitoring committee decide what relevant information they want to know about communities? How do they decide what information is important to communities?

Rhoda Katsak answers this question (in English and Inuktitut): What the socio-economic monitoring committees are; who the members are andhow the committees work?

Plain Language Summary of the Cumulative Effects Assessment for the Final Environmental Impact Assessment, Mary River Project (oral translation into Inuktitut)

Paul Quassa answers the question: How do you see the Igloolik Socio-Economic Baseline Study fitting into broader processes of regulatory assessment and monitoring for Mary River and other projects in the future? (he answers the question in Inuktitut and English)

Paul Quassa answers the question: Why did Igloolik decide not to just use Statistics Canada data? (answers question in Inuktitut and English)

Paul Quassa answers the question: What motivated the Igloolik Hamlet Council to decide to conduct it's own baseline study for the community? (Quassa answers this question in Inuktitut and English)

Frances Abele, Professor at Carleton University explains explains that environmental impact statements submitted by proponents are comphrehensive but limited in a number of ways. Many viewpoints are needed in a review process about a mine: the proponent's, communities', individuals', and technical experts'. 

Frances Abele, Professor at Carleton University, explains what happens if there is no funding provided for Intervenors, or if nobody comes forward as an Intervenor in an Environmental Impact Asssessment hearing. 

 Frances Abele, Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration talks about how independent research is used by review boards, like NIRB, to make informed decisions about projects like Baffinland's Mary River. 

Frances Abele, Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University speaks about the importance of baseline studies for measuring and understanding the impacts of projects, like Mary River. 

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ INUKTITUT AUDIO Introduction to NIRB, The Nunavut Impact Review Board and the Public Interest. 18:00 in Oral Inuktitut. 

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ INUKTITUT AUDIO #2: The Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB) and the Public Interest. Translation of Amanda Hansen of NIRB explaining why NIRB must take into account the views of Inuit. 3:21 in Oral Inuktitut. (English original also available)

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ INUKTITUT AUDIO #3: The Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB) and the Public Interest. MORE translation of Amanda Hansen of NIRB explaining how NIRB works. 4:42 in Oral Inuktitut. (English original also available)

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ INUKTITUT AUDIO #4: The Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB) and the Public Interest. Paul Quassa discusses why the negotiators of the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement wanted to create the Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB). Quassa explains why NIRB is needed and how Inuit have decision-making control over developments in Nunavut. 4:34 in Oral Inuktitut.

Sandra Inutiq provides advice to community members thinking about participating in Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB) hearings for the Mary River Project. Inutiq explains why an environmental assessment is important. Inutiq stresses that members of the community should also participate in order to have their interests heard, not only government and Inuit organizations. 3:31 in Oral Inuktitut.

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ INUKTITUT AUDIO #6: The Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB) and the Public Interest. Translation of Amanda Hansen of NIRB explaining why NIRB is important to protect Inuit. 5:08 in Oral Inuktitut. (English original also available)

Baffinland officially asked the government and Inuit organizations for permission to develop the Mary River mine in 2008. Why did NIRB decide that an environmental assessment was needed? Josie Tucktoo-Lacasse is a staff member at the Nunavut Impact Review Board. She explains why NIRB decided to send the project to a public review.

In Nunavut, decisions about the land are not made only by the land owners. Decisions are also made by the Nunavut Impact Review Board, who has the power to make recommendations about land use activities across Nunavut. John Merritt talks about how land ownership and decision-making by the Nunavut Impact Review Board work together to give Inuit a voice in decision-making.

Zacharias Kunuk spoke to the producers of Nipivut Nunatinnii in English about Digital Indigenous Democracy and the significance of the Mary River project for Inuit. We liked the interview so much we had it translated into Inuktitut.

The human rights impact assessment will focus on the rights of workers, the rights of people in the community to health, food and water, and how a company manages its environmental impacts. In the context of the Qikiqtani region, it is also important to address the Inuit right to be consulted on development taking place on their land.

We often talk about the environmental and socio-economic impacts of mining projects, but what about their effects on people’s human rights? In this clip, Montreal-based human rights lawyer Lloyd Lipsett talks about why human rights are important in the context of the Mary River Project.

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