NewPeak has announced sale uranium-REE-scandium projects on Inuit lands of Canada
as part of a suspect swap deal with Ms Emma Fairhurst
https://hotcopper.com.au/threads/fairhurst-swap-fool%C2%B4s-gold-to-inuit-uranium.7979462/
NewPeak started 2012 in asx as "Navaho Gold".
One could expect next name to be "Inuit Uranium" or even "Esk**o Uranium" (** term considered racist)
The resistance of Inuit against uranium mining has been documented in in autobiography of Joan Scottie (reference 1), in part the story of Inuit resistance to uranium mining in the Kivalliq region of Nunavut. They stopped in late 80´s German Urangesellchaft (uranium company) and an international gigant AREVA in a place west of Baker Lake, at a place called Kiggavik.
AREVA tried to corrupt the community for more than 10 ears and wasted 80 million $ but was forced to give up 2017 see reference 2) AREVA disaster 2017 in local news.
Similarily in Greenland Australian Greenland Minerals (GGG not ETM) tried to corrupt the government of Greenland to accept Kvanefjeld mining but failed when parties against uranium mining won elections and made Canadian type laws prohibiting mining uranium above 100 ppm. Company may have lost tens of millions (at least in share value) and was forced to start other projects. The arbitration court case has already lasted 3 years,and may last long as it is only starting, see references 3).
There are 3 inuit nations in the region: NunatuKavummiut, Nunavik and Nunatsiavut, ref 4)
Urangesellschaft in 1)
"A Baker Lake Concerned Citizens Committee, which Scottie helped start, became the main vehicle opposed to the project. They were able to stop the project in part because of the heavy-handed approach of the company and because they were able to get many of the involved parties to accept a local vote, which in the end was 90 percent opposed. The broader Inuit leadership also tended to support the local community in this effort."
quotes of AREVA case of reference 1)
"The second proposal, more than a decade later, by a French based company called Areva, became a more complicated struggle as the company hired local Inuit to work as liaisons, offered elders free trips by helicopter to homeland areas many had not been able to visit for decades, and took more of a ‘soft power’ approach to the community, which initially paid dividends in dividing opposition and even generating some support. Most tellingly, the post-land claims era made many of the Inuit political organizations holders of capital pools, relying on Qallunaat advisors whose concern with investment returns made a mockery of earlier commitments to the value of Inuit life ways. An organization called Makita (short for Nunavummiut Makitagunarninnit, the people of Nunavut can rise up) became the focal point for resistance efforts. In contrast, the “corporate Inuit organizations” behaved in sometimes underhanded ways, pretending for example that municipal council votes in favour of allowing work on the proposal for a uranium mine to proceed counted as local support for the project itself and rendered a second plebiscite unnecessary. Broader circumstances had changed as well: the project was presented as part of the solution to the global warming crises, and as a way Inuit could contribute to what some argue is a viable alternative energy source. In the end, because the price of uranium had gone down, making the mine economically unfeasible, Areva instead asked for approval of a project with no clear start-up date in its final submissions. The Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB) recommended not approving it for that reason.
One of the most telling passages, in my view, relates to what Scottie says about the Government of Nunavut and the Inuit organizations that emerged in the post-land claim era:
After we signed the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement in 1993, I expected there would be a bigger focus on Inuit pitqussit [Inuit rules] regarding the land and wildlife. I thought the Government of Nunavut (GN) and the Inuit representative organizations would push for stronger protections for caribou habitat than the federal Caribou Protection Measures. I was seriously mistaken. In many cases, the GN and Inuit organizations have sided with the mining industry and have stopped our attempts to protect important caribou habitat.
It appears that the assumption that giving Inuit greater control and resources would lead to a stronger environmental justice ethos grounding policy and practice was misguided. The institutional linkages, and the associated promotion of the capacity to think in institutional terms, linked to the fact that many Inuit organizations had to balance their need to grow their capital pool with whatever other values Inuit may hold (for their culture and land-based life ways), appear to have taken their toll on a layer of the Inuit leadership.
It is therefore even more to their credit that the many Inuit who hold fast to traditional values were able to mobilize and defeat two major attempts to open uranium mines in Nunavut. Scottie’s memories of receiving the news that NIRB was recommending rejection of the Areva proposal (Makita had already drafted a press release expressing ‘disappointment’ in a decision they fully expected would go the other way are a high point in a book with many: few of us on the activist side of social change ‘win’ any of our battles and can quietly celebrate with Scottie the extraordinary feeling that comes when a small group of grassroots organizers actually defeat a major multinational corporate behemoth."
NewPeak´s start as Navaho Gold
see releases 2012
https://announcements.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20110506/pdf/41yhml0z8l6529.pdf
https://npm.live.irmau.com/site/pdf/b1335d96-ffe2-4cc3-93da-d21ac2689d24/Investor-Presentation-NavGas-Pty-Ltd.pdf
1) Review of autobiography of Joan Scottie and uranium resitance
https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/the-indigenous-fight-to-stop-uranium-mining-in-canadas-north
https://news.umanitoba.ca/i-will-live-for-both-of-us-a-history-of-colonialism-uranium-mining-and-inuit-resistance/
2) AREVA disaster 2017 in local news https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/65674areva_pulls_out_of_baker_lake_as_nunavut_uranium_mine_mothballed/Greenland Inuits stopped uranium containing REE project of Greenland Minerals (now ETM).
Canadian Inuits are famous for protecting their lands, also against uranium exploration and stopping AREVA.
3) Greenland uranium
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/greenland-bans-uranium-mining-halting-rare-earths-project-2021-11-10/
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, about Greenland uranium project
https://www.ohchr.org/en/ohchr_homepage?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwrcKxBhBMEiwAIVF8rORZk63wOhrFA0cyoICGQ7yEdGFTKr1fv1K4qr3A7bJcLKGjI9iuphoCBFkQAvD_BwE
GGG/ETM
https://hotcopper.com.au/asx/etm/announcements/
Annual report2023
https://hotcopper.com.au/threads/ann-annual-report-to-shareholders.7926443/
4) Inuit nations in the Quebec-labrador regions:
Nunatsiavut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunatsiavut
Nunavik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunavik
NunatuKavummiut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NunatuKavummiut
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