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Proposed Port and Road in Canada’s Central Arctic Raise Caribou Concerns
Nunavut is pushing for federal cash to help advance a mining project that would bring badly needed jobs to the territory’s northwest. But critics – including territorial government biologists – worry about the impact on a nearby barren-ground caribou herd.