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Hope Bay

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Hope Bay

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In this season finale of The Arctic Edge, host Hannah Thibedeau travels to the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut, 125 kilometres southwest of Cambridge Bay, as Agnico Eagle announces a US$2.4 billion investment in the next phase of development for its Hope Bay project. What she finds is a compelling example of sustained northern investment. Projects like Hope Bay can serve as an example of how this can be done. Not as a blueprint to replicate, but as an illustration of what becomes possible when relationships are established early, built, and sustained over time, on trust.

This episode features conversations with Sean Boyd, Chair of the Board of Agnico Eagle; Ammar Al‑Joundi, Chief Executive Officer; Alex Buchan, Director of Nunavut Affairs; the Honourable Tim Hodgson, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources; Nunavut Premier John Main; Member of Parliament Lori Idlout; and employees on the ground at Hope Bay: Johnny Nikhaktok Avakok, haul truck driver; Quentin Crockatt, core technician; and Jonny Toft, senior exploration field technician. Together, they paint a picture of what it takes to build in the Arctic and the impacts on generations to come.

As Sean Boyd puts it, "Hope Bay can be a template: a template of cooperation, a template of vision, a template of initiative to make big things happen."

To learn more, visit www.thearcticedge.ca

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