Nunatsiaq News: Improved Mary River benefits deal will deliver more to Inuit, QIA says
Amended agreement provides $10-million for Pond Inlet training centre
Baffinland Iron Mines Corp. and the Qikiqtani Inuit Association say they will aim for a better record on meeting Inuit employment and training targets at the Mary River mine through their amended Inuit impact and benefits agreement, or IIBA, signed on Oct. 3 in Iqaluit.
“I truly feel this is a benefit agreement that clearly lays out what the communities want, what Inuit want and have always envisioned,” QIA President P.J. Akeeagok said at the signing ceremony.
“We are representing Inuit interests,” he said.
QIA board members approved the changes to the Mary River IIBA in a unanimous motion only an hour and a half before the signing ceremony.
The deal replaces the first IIBA, which was signed five years ago in September 2013.
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