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Bathurst Inlet, officially Kiluhiqtuq, Kiluhiqtuq (formerly Bathurst Inlet) is a deep inlet located along the northern coast of the Canada mainland, at the east end of Coronation Gulf, into which the Burnside River and Western rivers empty. The name, or its native equivalent Kingoak ( Qingaut, nose mountain), is also used to identify the community of Bathurst Inlet located on the shore. Melville Sound opens into the eastern side of the inlet at Cape Croker, west of the Hurd Islands.
A plan referred to the Nunavut Impact Review Board in May 2004 projected a capacity to moor vessels of up to 50,000 tonnes.
In this earlier plan the Bathurst Inlet Road would be an ice road, like that from Yellowknife, not an all-weather road as in post-2005 proposals, following the failure of the ice road to freeze early enough to allow transport of a whole year's worth of supplies.
In 2008 several of the companies dropped out.
In August 2013 Bathurst Inlet Port & Road (BIPR) Project, a joint venture composed of Glencore, Sabina Gold and Silver Corporation, presented continued plans for facilities at the Grays Bay Port that would "include a dock, concentration storage shed, fuel storage facilities and a camp. These facilities will support storage of concentrate, loading of bulk-carrier ships, and re-supply of fuel and goods for the Project." The project that was first proposed in 2003 has been subject to changes in demands made by the Nunavut Impact Review Board regarding Environmental Impact Study.
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Environmental issues
Environmental groups have raised concerns over the impact the road would have on the annual migration of the Bathurst Caribou herd.
In fiction
The proposed deep-water port serves as the basis of location in Don Bassingthwaite's short story, "Too Much Is Never Enough" from the science fiction anthology, .
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