Uranium mining halted in caribou breeding lands
(Canada) Uranium company ordered to clean up camp site CBC News January 12, 2010 Plans for uranium exploration have ground to a halt at a Nunavut property held by Uravan Minerals Inc.Federal officials ordered Uravan to clean up a cache of materials from a mining camp site for which it did not have the proper land use permits.
The site in question is at Sand Lake, on Uravan’s sprawling Garry Lake uranium exploration property, located 245 kilometres northwest of Baker Lake in Nunavut’s Kivalliq region.Not only did the company not have a permit to work on the Sand Lake site specifically, but the entire Garry Lake uranium property lies within the calving grounds of the Beverly caribou herd…………
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The title of this blog is misleading. Uranium mining continues actively in the Beverly and Ahiak caribou calving grounds.
There are numerous exploration projects which continue on those grounds and this one is undergoing site remediation but the mining proposal is ongoing.