The very unique Bathurst Inlet Port and Road (BIPR) project is a 50/50 joint venture between Nuna Logistics Limited and Kitikmeot Corporation.
The BIPR project will lie entirely within the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut and will comprise the development of a marine port on Bathurst Inlet, a 211km all-weather road to Contwoyto Lake connecting to the existing ice road on Contwoyto Lake.
Nuna Logistics prepared a transportation concept paper in 1998 that included preliminary road routes to a port site on Bathurst Inlet. A separate study by the Government of NWT Transportation Department in 1998/99 examined road route alternatives through the Slave Geological Province that identified a route similar to that described by Nuna Logistics.
All
Inuit enrolled under the Nunvut Land Claims Agreement are shareholders of
Nunasi Corporation, a Nunavut-wide Inuit economic development corporation
charged with the responsibility of undertaking business operations that
profit shareholders socially as well as economically.
For more information, see the Nunasi Corporation web site.
Kitikmeot
Corporation is accountable to the Kitikmeot Inuit Association, and is
responsible for the investigation of business opportunities that benefit the
Inuit of their respective regions, through job creation, training and skills
transfer, and/or increased business growth for Inuit entrepreneurs. The
company may also joint venture with Inuit or non-Inuit partners and invest
in real estate.
For more information, see the Kitikmeot Corporation web site.