Nunavut Impact Review Board

A long-awaited project that would see an Arctic deepwater port and road connecting rich mineral resources to international shipping routes as well as offering the Navy another northern beachhead has been revived.

Inuit hunters fear an upcoming ruling on an Arctic mine expansion could hasten the ongoing decline of a narwhal population that they rely on for food.

An Inuit land-claim group is asking the federal government to permanently protect large sections of the Eastern Arctic from any industrial development.