From: Jeremy Harrison [jeremyh41@gmail.com]
Sent: December 5, 2008 2:55 AM
To: lpayette@nirb.ca
Cc: strahl.c@parl.gc.ca; prentice.j@parl.sc.ca; dshewchuk@gov.nu.ca
Subject: Uravan Garry Lake Project, NIRB File 08EN037

I am writing to urge you to deny Uravan Mineral's application for mineral development for uranium. The proposed area is in the middle of the calving grounds of the Beverly Caribou Herd.  In a recent, but well overdue aerial survey of the herd on their calving grounds (June 2008), the Beverly-Qamanirjuaq Caribou Management Board found that the population of the herd has crashed. Since the last census in the early '90s, they estimate that the population of the herd has dropped 98%. The survey also discovered that the number of calves per number of cows is only 1/5th the normal number. Without bothering to argue about what might have caused this catastrophic collapse, it is certain that the recovery of the herd will be impossible if their calving grounds are compromised. As a member or the Trans-Arctic Canoe Expedition in support of WWF-Canada, we did not begin to see caribou till the Lower Back River, probably from the Qamanirjuaq herd (see attachment). Please help protect the Beverly herd and other Barren Grounds caribou. Thank you.

 Jeremy Harrison

Trans-Arctic Canoe Expedition (raised over $22,000 for WWF-Canada)

www.transarcticexpedition.com