In 2005, the territorial energy provider came up with a plan to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels and out-of-date power plants. Inuit-owned Nunavut Nukkiksautiit Corp. took over in 2022 and now plans a 50-metre-high dam, a powerhouse and possibly a wind turbine to generate 15 to 30 megawatts of electricity for about a century. None of this is going over well in Pangnirtung, a community of 1,500 residents about 300 kilometres northeast of the capital. But, last year, Prime Minister Mark Carney added the Iqaluit Nukkiksautiit Project to the federal major projects list. The Kugluktuk Hunters & Trappers Organization calls Grays Bay Road (another major project) a “road to nowhere.”