Photo: From Clyde River to Toronto

By NUNATSIAQ NEWS

Clyde River mayor Jerry Natanine made a trek to Toronto Nov. 6 to speak to a conference called the Public Consultation and Engagement Summit about his community's struggle against seismic testing in nearby Baffin Bay. Groups in the Baffin community have filed an application at the Federal Court of Appeal seeking a judicial review of a recent decision by the National Energy Board to permit a five-year seismic testing project in Baffin Bay and Davis Strait. “Because we live there, that’s our water. If there’s oil there, we want to drill it ourselves,


Clyde River mayor Jerry Natanine made a trek to Toronto Nov. 6 to speak to a conference called the Public Consultation and Engagement Summit about his community’s struggle against seismic testing in nearby Baffin Bay. Groups in the Baffin community have filed an application at the Federal Court of Appeal seeking a judicial review of a recent decision by the National Energy Board to permit a five-year seismic testing project in Baffin Bay and Davis Strait. “Because we live there, that’s our water. If there’s oil there, we want to drill it ourselves,” Natanine told his first southern conference. Read more later at Nunatsiaqonline.ca. (PHOTO BY SARAH ROGERS)

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