The corporation interacts with various government departments in connection with our operations in Yellowknife and activities in Nunavut on the Hope Bay Project. Following are some of the associations we have important relationships with:
Yellowknife:
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (more recently called Indian and Northern Affairs Canada - INAC). This department of the federal government is responsible for the enforcement of our water licence.
The MacKenzie Valley Land and Water Board (MLWB) is the newly created organization (as a result of land claim settlements) for issuing water use licences and environmental reviews of new and existing operations.
The Yellowknife Arsenic Soil Remediation Committee (YASRC) is a multi-stakeholder group including Con Mine involved in addressing the issues related to arsenic soil contamination in the Yellowknife area both from a historic and mine operations perspective.
The NWT/Nunavut Chamber of Mines is an association organization in which Miramar is involved with both on an executive level and director capacity. Miramar has two representatives on the Board of Directors.
Nunavut:
The Kitikmeot Inuit Association (KIA), is the organization in Nunavut that we have the closest contact with. The KIA is the birthright organization (as defined in the Nunavut land claim agreement) and is responsible for approving and inspecting minerals (and other) activities on Inuit owned lands (IOL). The Hope Bay project is located in an area that has a considerable amount of Inuit owned lands and the KIA lands department issues permits and carries out inspections of our activities at the project. The KIA has other functions and subsidiary bodies such as Kitikmeot Corporation, which is the economic arm of the KIA, and has joint ventures with various companies associated with transportation, logistics, winter road construction etc.
Other groups we deal with include the Nunavut Water Board (NWB); Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB); Nunavut Planning Commission (NPC); Nunavut Tunggavik (NTO); Nunavut Wildlife - Department of Sustainable Development, and other who all would be involved in some form as the project develops. INAC has responsibility for water licence inspections as it does in Yellowknife.
We meet as required with the various groups and overall have had great support for the Hope Bay project. We will continue to develop good relationships with the Inuit organizations.
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