Sealing the Deal: Environmental and Indigenous Justice and Mining in Nunavut 1

• Published in: Review of European Community & International Environmental Law
• Main Author: Bowman, Laura
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2011
• Subjects: Arctic; Nunavut; inuit; Nunavut Land Claims Agreement
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9388.2011.00699.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1467-9388.2011.00699.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1467-9388.2011.00699.x

Nunavut is a territory in Canada's Eastern Arctic inhabited by a majority Inuit population. This population continues to rely on wildlife as a food source, and on harvesting for both cultural and economic well‐being. Increased mining investment in Nunavut has resulted in a diminishment of public hearing opportunities for individual Inuk and other residents of Nunavut in non‐renewable resource decisions that will affect harvesters. This represents a substantial erosion of the participatory rights the Inuit agreed to when they ratified the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement in 1993.