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Hall Beach

Hall Beach is located on the shore of Foxe Basin on the Melville Peninsula. With a current population of just above 720, it was created when a Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line site was built in the area in 1957 to help monitor Canadian air space in the Far North. Though the DEW line is no longer operational, there is a more technologically advanced North Warning System radar site in the community that replaces it.

In the late 1950s and 1960s, Inuit moved from surrounding camps to work around the DEW line site and the community was born. Hall Beach is considered one of the more traditional communities in Nunavut. The traditional name for Hall Beach is Sanirayak, or “one that is on the coast.” It’s a spectacular place to see walruses, seals, waterfowl and other arctic wildlife.

Northern Infrastructure Standardization Initiative

Infrastructure in the Canadian Arctic is being affected by climate change impacts such as permafrost thaw, coastal erosion, and changing temperatures and precipitation patterns.  With this in mind, the Standards Council of Canada established the Northern Infrastructure Standardization Initiative (NISI), which creates standards that are specific to infrastructure in the north

A Summary of MethylMercury and Climate Change Research in Nunavut

What is Mercury/Methylmercury and what are its properties and potential harmful effects on the arctic?

Mercury (Hg) is a toxic heavy metal that changes into various chemical forms through geochemical processes.  It is an element that occurs naturally in the environment but with industrialization, humans have altered itc cycle by adding more mercury in the water, air and soil.

Nunavut Climate Change Partnership

The Nunavut Climate Change Partnership (NCCP) was a collaborative partnership between the Government of Nunavut, Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, and Natural Reosurces Canada to build capacity for community-level adaptation planning.

QEC DHS implementation to Community in Hall Beach

DHS ( District Heating System- Heat recovery from diesel generators) in Sanikiluaq, Hall Beach and Taloyoak

QEC DHS implementation to Community in Hall Beach

DHS ( District Heating System- Heat recovery from diesel generators) in Sanikiluaq, Hall Beach and Taloyoak

QEC DHS implementation to Community in Hall Beach

DHS ( District Heating System- Heat recovery from diesel generators) in Sanikiluaq, Hall Beach and Taloyoak

QEC DHS implementation to Community in Hall Beach

DHS ( District Heating System- Heat recovery from diesel generators) in Sanikiluaq, Hall Beach and Taloyoak