From: John Lutz [jlutz@uvic.ca]
Sent: December 17, 2008 5:01 PM
To: lpayette@nirb.ca; DShewchuk@gov.nu.ca; Prentice.J@parl.gc.ca;
Strahl.C@parl.gc.ca
Cc: alex@canoearctic.com
Subject: Uravan Garry Lake Project, NIRB File 08EN037

Dear Ms. Payette, and Minsters Shewchuk, Prentice and Strahl;

I am writing to object to the application of Uravan Mineral's application for mineral exploration in the Nunavut Barren Lands and on the calving grounds of the Beverly Cariboo herd.  I was at Beverly Lake this summer on a regular canoe trip and noticed the small number of Cariboo in the area.  On return I learned the shocking news that the 
herd is now only 2% of its former size.   Clearly the herd is vulnerable 
and on the edge of extinction and starting new mineral leases in their calving grounds would be another and perhaps the final blow. 

Moreover, should sufficient uranium to be found, a mine would be out of the question.  That would certainly finish the Cariboo herd and the toxic effects of the waste from such a mine would be a blight on the North for time immemorial.

I urge you to do the reasonable thing, take the precautionary 
approach.   Any other approach is gambling with the future of the 
Cariboo, with the environment of the North, and there is little margin for error.

John Lutz

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