The Arctic of Nunavut's Bathurst Inlet
Channel: Noah Cole
Date: 2012-08-08

Footage from the Arctic

Bathurst Inlet, 
Nunavut,
Canada

It was warmer than 24 Celcius each day for the first week, melting the glaciers and the permafrost. Going swimming in the Arctic ocean was pretty incredible. The musk-ox are changing their herding patterns, but I saw golden eagles, falcons, songbirds, sandpipers, eider ducks, three species of loons, caribou, an Arctic wolf, a grizzly at a distance, orchids and butterflies. It was great meeting all the local people, or Kingaumiut, and staying at the smallest community in Nunavut. Seeing some of the traditional ways and hearing lore about the Arctic Franklin Expedition that once explored Bathurst Inlet in 1821. 

Government is proposing to build a ship port to enable freighter and industrial ships to use the inlet. This would displace centuries and milennia of historic and First Nations culture as well as disturb pristine shorelines and many nationally threatened and at-risk local species.