The Det’on Cho construction company has signed an agreement with Australia-based Cheetah Resources to control the mining at the Nechalacho Rare Earth mining project site. Det’on Cho is a subsidiary of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation. According to a news release, the agreement may be the first where all mining…
Residents from across the Northwest Territories have signed an open letter calling on MP Michael McLeod to push for a Green New Deal in Parliament. Our Time Yellowknife drafted the letter, which describes a Green New Deal as “an ambitious plan to tackle the climate crisis at the scale that…
One of the largest mines in Nunavut is facing a series of charges related to the death of a worker on December 16 last year. Last week, the Workers’ Safety and Compensation Commission filed 16 charges against Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation under the Mine Health and Safety Act. In a…
One of the Northwest Territories Indigenous trucking companies is facing financial tough times. Ventures West Transport and Tli Cho Landtran Transport Limited according to several media reports have lost over 18 million dollars over the last two years. Both companies have relied heavily on fuel hauling contracts to the territories…
At a public hearing this week on its water license application, De Beers said constructing wetlands at its closed Snap Lake mine site is no longer required, nor feasible. The company initially proposed building wetlands in its water license application and final closure plan as a way to reduce nitrate…
The Vancouver-based company NorZinc has reported that the Mackenzie Valley Land & Water Board (MVLWB) has issued water licences and a land use permit for all season road access to the Prairie Creek Mine in the Dehcho Region of the Northwest Territories. In a news release issued last Thursday, the…
The Government of the Northwest Territories wants to hear your ideas to improve tourism. Over the next few weeks, the GNWT will be hosting meetings across the territory for residents to share their input on how to develop the tourism industry. That input will go to develop the GNWT’s five-year…
Environment and climate change is one of the most important issues to Canadian voters; the same cannot be said for most of the NWT candidates in the upcoming federal election. Liberal Michael McLeod, Conservative Yanik D’Aigle, and People’s Party candidate Luke Quinlan all skipped out on a debate centred around…
Few people embody the tension and different possibilities for the territory’s future like the two MLA candidates running in the riding of Frame Lake. Incumbent Kevin O’Reilly has spent his time as an MLA skeptical of multi-million dollar infrastructure projects geared towards attracting the extractive industry. His counterpart Dave Ramsay…
How important are the perceived effects of development on the land? That was one of the main questions at a public hearing on a possible change to Diavik mine’s closure plan. The project The mine is hoping to stuff 5 million cubic metres of processed kimberlite back into one of…