“The Disease that Knowledge Must Cure”? Sites of Uncertainty and Imagined Futures of Baker Lake, Nunavut

• Main Author: Metuzals, Jessica
• Other Authors: Environmental Studies, Hird, Myra J., van Wyck, Peter C.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Resource development conflict; Uncertainty; Indigenous peoples; Environmental assessment; Nunavut; Areva; Baker Lake; inuit; Kivalliq
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1974/25449

After nearly eight years of formal environmental review, in July 2016, the Canadian federal government rejected the French multinational AREVA’s proposal to construct a uranium mine 80 kilometers west of Qamani’tuaq/Baker Lake, a small inland and mainly Inuit hamlet in the Kivalliq region of Nunavut...