A battered canoe sits on the beach in the northern territory of Nunavut. Inuit fear testing for oil and gas is going to poison Arctic waters. Itis red and sits on dark, brownish sand. Its prow faces toward the left of the picture. The canoe is split midway along its right side. Behind the canoe lie beautiful ice-grey waters that show little motion. The water is flecked by small white ice particles. In the far distance (it is difficult to figure out how far), sit gorgeous, blue low-slung mountains. They, too, are flecked with white dots.

A battered canoe sits on the beach in the northern territory of Nunavut. Inuit fear testing for oil and gas is going to poison Arctic waters.
Photo Credit: Canadian Press / Lee-Anne Goodman

Inuit want NEB review of Arctic seismic testing

A tiny community in Canada’s Arctic wants a judicial review of a National Energy Board decision that approves seismic testing for oil and gas in nearby waters.

The testing is scheduled to begin next summer and will be carried out by consortium based in Norway.

People in the hamlet of Clyde River, located along the east coast of Baffin Island, fear the testing will adversely affect marine mammals, many of which the Inuit depend on the survive.

Their concerns are widely shared across Baffin Island and by Nunavut territorial wildlife management boards.

Meanwhile on the Canadian Prairies, a pair of First Nations are campaigning to halt nuclear waste from being buried near the town of Creighton, Saskatchewan.

The Opaskwayak Cree Nation near The Pas, Manitoba, and the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation, near Creighton, oppose the move.

Both bands have recently declared bans on nuclear waste from Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick passing through their traditional territory and being stored there.

Creighton is located near the Saskatchewan-Manitoba border and is one of four sites that could eventually store radioactive nuclear waste.

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