NCC’s Department of Research, Education and Culture has partnered with researchers from Dalhousie University’s School for Resource and Environmental Studies on a new research initiative entitled ‘Envisioning and Advancing Energy Autonomy in NunatuKavut’. The research is being funded primarily through a SSHRC post-doctoral fellowship that is being held by Dr. Nick Mercer and supplemented with funding through the multi-year CIHR Environment and Health Signature Initiative entitled A SHARED Future. Additional funding has been provided by the Government of Canada’s Indigenous Off-Diesel Initiate (IODI).
The research project has two primary pathways:
- a critical policy and project analysis which seeks to determine how NunatuKavut Inuit have been involved with and benefitted from previous and ongoing energy-related decisions in the region; and
- the implementation of a high efficiency woodstove [HEWS] pilot project in the partner community of Black Tickle.
Today, we released the preliminary findings of the pilot project. Read the report by clicking on the image below.
