Kugluktuk Bathurst Inlet Kingaok Bay
P.O. Box 360 Kugluktuk, NU X0B 0E0 Telephone: (867) 982-3310 Fax: (867) 982-3311 www.kitia.ca February 3, 2015 Kugluktuk Canadian High Arctic Research Station P.O Box ᖁᕐᓗᖅᑐᖅ Cambridge Bay, NU X0B 0C0 Bathurst Inlet Via Email: Kingaok ᕿᙵᐅᓐ Re: Letter of Support for Drs. Jennifer Galloway and Tim Patterson research project - Geoscience Tools for Supporting Environmental Risk Assessment of Metal Mining Bay Chimo Umingmaktok Dear Proposal Reviewer: ᐅᒥᖕᒪᒃᑑᖅ The mandate of the Kitikmeot Inuit Association (KIA) is “to represent the interests of Kitikmeot Inuit by protecting and promoting our social, cultural, political, environmental and economic well- Cambridge Bay being.” As such, the KIA promotes sustainable development benefiting our people, our region, and our territory. Currently, however, regional geochemical baseline data is very limited in the Ikaluktutiak Arctic, and this restricts the ability to develop the most appropriate monitoring guidelines and ᐃᖃᓗᒃᑑᑦᑎᐊᖅ remediation targets for land development. The KIA supports the proposal submitted by Drs. Jennifer Galloway and Tim Patterson for several Gjoa Haven reasons. Firstly, the proposal addresses critical knowledge gaps regarding climate change and Okhoktok baseline geochemistry in the Slave Geological Province. Secondly, once understood, these gaps have the potential to facilitate the translation of new data and the development of geoscience ᐅᖅᓱᖅᑑᖅ tools to inform and support decision-makers. We are particularly pleased that the proposed research is planned in the vicinity of the Hope Bay project as this will help establish pre- development geochemical baseline for this region of high resource potential. Taloyoak ᑕᓗᕐᔪᐊᕐᒃ The KIA is pleased that the team includes federal, territorial, community, industry, academic, First Nations, and Inuit collaborators.
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