Tahera, KIA ink benefits deal

By NUNATSIAQ NEWS

The Tahera Diamond Corp. and the Kitikmeot Inuit Association held a long-awaited signing ceremony in Cambridge Bay last week for the Inuit Impact and Benefits Agreement that covers Tahera’s Jericho Mine near Contwoyto Lake.

The deal, required by the Nunavut land claims agreement, was reached in 2003, and has been available to the public since January of this year.

Under the agreement, the company will use its “best efforts” to bring its number of Inuit hires up to 60 per cent of the total by the fifth year of the eight-year project.

Nuna Logistics, owned by the Nunasi Corporation and the Kitikmeot Corporation, is the “preferred” contractor for the project and will construct a camp, diesel storage facility, workshop, explosive storage facilities, and on-site ice access roads.

The company hopes to start transporting mine construction materials to the site this winter, and to be in full production by 2006.

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