Don't sell the Traditional future of our children for technology

As an Inuk who has spent 65 summers on the George river, I have many negative comments regarding this mining project. The area around Lake Brisson and the George river is very rich in biodiversity. It will be negatively impacted if this mine is allowed to go forward. Lake Brisson where the actual mine is proposed flows into the GR near its head waters. If it does go ahead the supposedly ''decontaminated water'' from the treatment plant at the mine will be pumped back into the lake to flow into the George river with all its radioactive elements and contamination which will then flow to the community of Kangiqsualujjuaq. This will ruin habitat for Atlantic salmon, Arctic charr, Brook trout and the other species that spawn in the river and are used for food by the Inuit of Kangiqsuallujuaq. Also the whole area is vital for the George river caribou herd which is at it's lowest numbers in recorded history.

Mitigation never works to bring areas back to their original state. In cases of Rare earth mining it would take hundreds, if not thousants of years to recover if it does.The only way to prevent this is to prevent the mine from operating in our area.

BOTTOM LINE

Would you sell the Traditional future of your children and their children for tecnology ?? 

Rare earth mining is the dirty and toxic underbelly of Green Technology and Clean Energy