Baker Lake Cumulative Effects Monitoring Program - Data Mining (NGMP ID LU11)

The Kivalliq Inuit Association (KIA) has partnered with Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada's (AANDC) Nunavut General Monitoring Plan (NGMP) to develop an Aquatic Cumulative Effects Monitoring Program (CEMP) for the Baker Lake Basin. This project is part of a 20 year plan that is being led by the KivIA, coordinated by a secretariat of key players (NGMP, KivIA, AANDC and NWB) and implemented through partnerships between the KivIA, federal and territorial governments, industry (Areva Resources and Agnico Eagle Mining), Kivalliq communities and eventually, universities and academic institutions. The intent of the proposed Aquatic CEMP is to coordinate disparate monitoring programs, levels of government, multiple departments, and interested parties while ensuring the communities of Kivalliq and eventually Nunavut are involved. The CEMP will include western science and Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (IQ) from the early design stages and facilitate a joint data gathering approach. The resulting data may provide a baseline by which to compare future results. The KIA, the NWB and NGMP therefore initiated the current project to review and assemble a database of baseline water monitoring information for the Baker Lake watershed. This baseline will serve as the starting point to assess future environmental changes within the watershed and strategically plan future monitoring efforts within the CEMP framework. (This is a report: "Baker Lake Basin Baseline Report", prepared by Hutchinson Environmental Sciences Ltd. for the Kivalliq Inuit Association. There is no data.)