{"id":277235,"date":"2025-11-11T22:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/277235\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T22:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:31:09","slug":"major-nunavut-infrastructure-project-could-be-announced-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/277235\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Nunavut infrastructure project could be announced Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nunavummiut could learn as early as Thursday whether a major Arctic infrastructure project will get federal government backing.<\/p>\n

For months, the federal government has been highlighting what it calls nation-building projects of national interest.<\/p>\n

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The Arctic Economic and Security Corridor, top left, is one 10 major \u201cnation-building projects\u201d highlighted in last Tuesday\u2019s federal budget. (Image courtesy of the Government of Canada)<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the first five of those projects that will be recommended for fast-track approval as well as the creation of the Major Projects Office which will review project proposals for approval, back in August.<\/p>\n

At that time, Carney said five more projects would be announced \u201cbefore the Grey Cup,\u201d the Canadian Football League championship game which is scheduled for Sunday in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n

At a news conference Monday in Fredericton, N.B, Carney said the next round of major projects will be revealed Thursday in Prince Rupert, B.C.<\/p>\n

The 2025-26 federal budget, released Nov. 4, included the previously announced first five projects<\/a> but without funding amounts. None involving Nunavut were on the list.<\/p>\n

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The budget also listed a second group of five projects it said were \u201cat an earlier stage and require further development.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of them \u2014 the Arctic Economic and Security Corridor \u2014 is described in the budget as \u201ca set of all-weather, dual-use, land and port-to-port-to-port infrastructure projects that will contribute to Canada\u2019s defence and northern development.\u201d<\/p>\n

The security corridor would support development of critical minerals projects and connect communities to the rest of Canada while increasing the capabilities and reach of the Canadian Armed Forces.<\/p>\n

The project would link Nunavut to southern Canada via a road for the first time, with its terminus in Edmonton, Alta.<\/p>\n

Part of the Arctic Economic and Security Corridor is the Grays Bay Road and Port project, according to the website of corridor proponent West Kitikmeot Resources Corp.<\/p>\n

The road and port project, proposed in 2016, is a 230-kilometre all-season road and deepsea port in Kitikmeot Region which would open vast areas for mining exploration and development.<\/p>\n

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Nunavut Premier P.J. Akeeagok has been a longtime proponent of the project recently stating he was \u201coptimistic<\/a>\u201d\u00a0about the project even though it had been left off Carney\u2019s initial group of five projects announced in September<\/p>\n

Federal officials did not respond to a request for comment Monday.<\/p>\n

The other projects listed among the second group of five in the budget are an Alberta carbon-capture storage network and pipeline; upgrade to the port of Churchill, Man.; a high-speed railway to connect Toronto and Quebec City; and a renewable energy and wind project in Nova Scotia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nunavummiut could learn as early as Thursday whether a major Arctic infrastructure project will get federal government backing.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-277235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}