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On the desert planet of Dune, Royal Houses invade Indigenous Lands plundering their natural resource, Spice, in order to travel across outer space. Decades of imposing systems and structures that were never in harmony with the Arctic’s delicate balance of nature now risk the future of Iqaluit.ĭenis Villeneuve’s screen adaptation of “Dune” brings author Frank Herbert’s critical commentary on colonialism and capitalism into far sharper focus than previous screen adaptations. The forces of colonialism and capitalism are collapsing under their own weight. Despite protests from residents and warnings from scientists that Iqaluit is on the brink of a massive water shortage the municipal government gave the brewery the go ahead. The brewery needed more than the cap for the entire city in order to operate. Iqaluit had a daily delivery cap of 2,000 litres of water for all local businesses. In 2018 Iqaluit opened their very first brewery. A water crisis has been simmering for years. Now there is less precipitation and more evaporation due to higher temperatures and there isn’t endless ground water to tap into to replenish resources. Homes in Iqaluit don’t have basements and sit on stilts.Įven as a child I knew I lived in a desert, just one covered in snow rather than sand. We couldn’t have water and sewage systems like they had “down south” because of the permafrost. My family’s home in Apex, a suburb of Iqaluit, had tanks outside that water was delivered to and waste was collected from. Iqaluit’s leadership believed the permafrost would keep their underground piping in place, but global warming thwarted that plan.
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The underground water and sewage systems of Nunavut’s capital crack constantly. The cost of a roundtrip from Iqaluit to Toronto is currently over $2,000. Patients are being flown to other communities across the country in order to receive medical care. The hospital I was born in had to shut down. Bottled water was brought in, but the city has no way of recycling that much plastic waste. Fuel contaminated the water supply, so residents couldn’t even boil it. Iqaluit, my former hometown, has been without clean drinking water for nearly two months.