Cambridge Bay celebrates gold mine’s opening
Dozens of cars, school buses, RCMP vehicles and fire trucks drive by the Cambridge Bay airport on Friday to celebrate the opening of Nunavut’s newest gold mine with honks and cheers. The parade is part of an all-day celebration organized by B2Gold Corp., which officially opened its Goose Mine on Thursday near Goose Lake, 400 kilometres south of Cambridge Bay. (Photo by Arty Sarkisian)
Hope , locals get jobs and improve their standard of living
Catch up. Is B2Gold Corp doing criminal records checks?
Or the latest boiling water incident is already forgotten…👿
Don’t see east Kitikmeot celebrating!!! as we know we get “None of it”, More Immigrants working at Goose Lake than Inuit and only getting worse…
Some one needs to show up.to.work on time
With all the gold mines in Nunavut and we are only 40 000 people how come we have homeless and jobless Inuit
No one wants to work, they only want hand-outs. If our inuuqatiks realize nothing is handed to us, we have to earn it, Nunavut would be better.
Like as if know
Inuit want to work if the southern hires would not bring the friends up instead of hiring local Inuit
Talk about the only line ever used to excuse this practices
Inuit don’t want to work
Is the lamest excuse
1 billion dollars in wages went south last year with the southern workforce,and the GN said nothing about the massive territorial income taxes that go with it .
Goose Mine’s estimated productive life is nine years.
I hope the IIBAs provide for solid training for Inuit, not just in the mine itself but in administration, trades and heavy equipment operation.
Training?!!
There are all kinds of trade schools, university and colleges to learn how.
Inuit don’t have to pay back loans or anything. It’s just free Inuit.
Step up.🤘
Sorry but not sorry, no wonder the caribou and other wildlife are delining where they are mining. Plus if and/when people want to hunt caribou they had to get tags because of declining herd. Beautiful land in and around where Bathurst Inlet, why they pick this area to have B2Gold mine.
With climate change and global warming,… wildlife in Nunavut s already
A study shows the Arctic has the highest “forever” chemicals 💀
The government knew this back in the day because they had geologists surveying the land
That’s why we were moved to towns
So they can have better access to the gold
And minerals
The declining caribou population isn’t a result in mining, it’s over hunting by local hunters who hunt for profit.
If people want to profit of hunting, then it needs to be regulated so that it’s sustainable.
Don’t blame the mines, they are what we need.
Its easier to blame the mines , then the profiteers .
Yes.
Why do Inuit still have such difficulties holding each other accountable?
The caribou around this mine have severely declined, starting in the 1990s.
During the 1950’s and 1960’s, this same herd was also in severe decline.
As it was when white trappers first started to go onto Bathurst caribou range before World War I.
Our Elders tell us that caribou numbers cycle high and low over 2-3 human generations.
What has been recorded over the course of written northern history proves that what they say is true.
That this herd started to decline in the 2000’s was predicted by Elders, if you were listening.
It was not mining. It was not over hunting. 470,000 caribou, way more than the tundra could support, ate out parts of their range, infested the land with their shed parasites and diseases, and the population crashed.
People really and truly need to start listening to our Elders and not inventing things. They know what they are talking about.
People who invent other theories about wildlife do not count how many caribou are shot, and they do not watch how caribou act around industrial sites.
All of this speculation is just arguing and finding fault back and forth for nothing.
More influxes of hard drugs into the region