Uvagut TV to air live coverage of controversial mine hearing

POND INLET, Nunavut — Uvagut TV, Canada’s first Inuit-language TV channel (which launched on January 18), said today it will broadcast live coverage of the upcoming environmental hearing on Baffinland Iron Mine’s proposed Mary River Phase 2 Expansion, direct from Pond Inlet (located in northern Baffin Island). Uvagut TV says the unprecedented coverage will give Inuit and concerned audiences “unfiltered access” to the proceeding being conducted by the Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB) in Iqaluit and Pond Inlet, starting on January 25. The hearing is expected to run until February 6. The NIRB in-person hearings were suspended in March 2020...