From: Tommy Mannik [tmannik@hotmail.com]
Sent: January 12, 2009 10:26 AM
To: 1payette@nirb.ca
Subject: Uravan Garry Lake Project,
To whom it may concern;
I got concern about the Uravan working around Garry Lake /Sand Lake area,It seems that the calving ground are not much concern for uravan also animals that our livelihood depend on caribou mostly, I know we can work something out with Uravan, I'm one of the servival of that starvation in 1954 near that year, I would like to see that caribou or the animals are protected more, I eat caribou meat everyday not unless I ran out of caribou meat,I would like to have more consultation on the topic of wildlife protection topic, I would like the calving ground protected , caribou crossings being protected, even stopage of work while the caribou migrate through the area if there is migration goes through there, money cannot replace these animals, I can only say where were the animals around that area when we were starving, and try to travelling to Baker Lake hoping we can get help to servive.
Tom Mannik
 
 
What I wanted to know is, if there was any IQ or TK Studies being done with these companies. Especially with the local people of Baker Lake and other settlements who would have lived around those areas. The concerns I have is, the camping areas, graves if there are some, mostly there could have been the starved dead that were never found, and never buried. Also there is a long lake near Sand Lake that is a calving ground, which I got from one of the people who travels through that area every year. If the also the local people not only the committees notified of what the Uravan wants to do. Forget not, of those who use to live around Garry/Pelly Lake areas, as my parents did before. In the fall, Tom and I met with some of the NIRB people, and talked with them, said I was to be a contact person for this, but never recieved anything from anyone. What did we miss I don't know, especially for people who use to live around that area. 
 
Hattie Mannik


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