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Rising commodity prices are being cited as the reason behind re-ignited plans to build a deep-water port at Bathurst Inlet in Canada's Arctic.
A transportation corridor through the SGP was first suggested in 1955 by the NWT's Commissioner, R. G.Roberston.
Nunavut wants to build a deep-sea port right in the calving grounds of the herd, where it would be used to store fuel oil for resupplying mines and communities and store metal ores for shipment to smelters. It wants to connect the port site to the mineral and diamond-rich territory to the southwest by a 215 km all-weather road-a road that would pass through the migratory route followed by the Bathurst Caribou herd from April through October.
Proponents of the $270-million Bathurst Inlet port and road proposal have put the project on hold again, over uncertainty about who will use and pay for the remote northern road and port.
The revised project (BIPAR Joint Venture Ltd., 2003; NIRB, 2004a) entails a marine port on Bathurst Inlet and a 211-km all-weather road to Contwoyto Lake, where it will connect to the existing winter road24 extending to Tibbitt Lake near Yellowknife, NWT (see Figure 6). The purpose of the port and road is to service a number of mines and potential mines, and to provide an alternative and shorter route for re-supply of fuel and goods to communities in the area.
The only road infrastructure developed within the (SGP) has been the 630km winter road from Yellowknife to Lupin Mine, now servicing Ekati™ and Diavik.
The BIPR Company is a joint venture currently composed of GlencoreXstrata and Sabina Gold and Silver Corporation formed for the purpose of being the Bathurst Inlet Port and Road project proponent.
In a letter dated March 30, 2012, Michel Boucher of Xstrata Zinc Canada and Matthew Pickard of Sabina Gold and Silver Corp. indicated their companies' intention to re-engage the BIPAR project and submit a revised Draft Environmental Impact Statement to the Nunavut Impact Review Board before the end of 2012.
The project, rejected by regulators in 2016 for its environmental impacts and then approved a year later, now has only its Type A water certificate to go before completing the regulatory process.
Rising commodity prices are being cited as the reason behind re-ignited plans to build a deep-water port at Bathurst Inlet in Canada's Arctic.
The revised project (BIPAR Joint Venture Ltd., 2003; NIRB, 2004a) entails a marine port on Bathurst Inlet and a 211-km all-weather road to Contwoyto Lake, where it will connect to the existing winter road24 extending to Tibbitt Lake near Yellowknife, NWT (see Figure 6). The purpose of the port and road is to service a number of mines and potential mines, and to provide an alternative and shorter route for re-supply of fuel and goods to communities in the area.
The only road infrastructure developed within the (SGP) has been the 630km winter road from Yellowknife to Lupin Mine, now servicing Ekati™ and Diavik.
Proponents of the $270-million Bathurst Inlet port and road proposal have put the project on hold again, over uncertainty about who will use and pay for the remote northern road and port.
In a letter dated March 30, 2012, Michel Boucher of Xstrata Zinc Canada and Matthew Pickard of Sabina Gold and Silver Corp. indicated their companies' intention to re-engage the BIPAR project and submit a revised Draft Environmental Impact Statement to the Nunavut Impact Review Board before the end of 2012.
The BIPR Company is a joint venture currently composed of GlencoreXstrata and Sabina Gold and Silver Corporation formed for the purpose of being the Bathurst Inlet Port and Road project proponent.
The project, rejected by regulators in 2016 for its environmental impacts and then approved a year later, now has only its Type A water certificate to go before completing the regulatory process.
A transportation corridor through the SGP was first suggested in 1955 by the NWT's Commissioner, R. G.Roberston.
Nunavut wants to build a deep-sea port right in the calving grounds of the herd, where it would be used to store fuel oil for resupplying mines and communities and store metal ores for shipment to smelters. It wants to connect the port site to the mineral and diamond-rich territory to the southwest by a 215 km all-weather road-a road that would pass through the migratory route followed by the Bathurst Caribou herd from April through October.
