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reported that the project failed an environmental review in 2016, but passed with a revised proposal in 2017. They reported the port facility was substantially completed, by
September 2018, with only a single certification required before it could open for business. They reported that the port cost
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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
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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
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in May 2004 projected a capacity to moor vessels of up to 50,000 tonnes. In this earlier plan the
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