From: Gwyneth Hoyle [ghoyle@trentu.ca]
Sent: December 4, 2008 11:31 AM
To: lpayette@nirb.ca
Cc: dowfink@rogers.com
Subject: Re: Uravan Garry Lake Project, NIRB File 08EN037

Dear Nunavut Impact Review Board,

Please, please consider carefully what is at stake in approving the proposed uranium mine development in the calving grounds of the caribou of the Beverly herd. It is well documented that the herd is in serious decline, and such a development may constitute its death knell. A mine - of a toxic substance at that - is a short term measure that will provide at best, a few temporary jobs for local people, and will enrich a southern corporation which has no deep concern about the local economy.
Healthy caribou herds have sustained the people of Nunavut and the North West territories, not only physically but spiritually, since time immemorial. In Biblical terms this is like selling your soul for a mess of potage.

Yours truly,

Gwyneth Hoyle
Research associate,
Frost Centre for Canadian Heritage and Native Heritage, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario