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Nukik Corporation's Anne-Raphaëlle Audouin: First Arctic Electricity Developer on the Grid

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Nunavut burns 138 million litres of diesel a year, and most of it comes from foreign countries.

1. Drumbeats - Canadian Indigenous Investment Podcast focuses on Nukik Corporation’s Anne-Raphaëlle Audouin and the Kivalliq Hydrofibre Link in Nunavut. 2. Hosts Mark McNacka and Robert Brant interview Anne-Raphaëlle Audouin, CEO of Nukik Corporation, which is 100% Inuit-owned. 3. The episode asks how a 3 billion-dollar, 1,000-kilometre Arctic transmission line can move from concept to construction. 4. Audouin says Nunavut is 20% of Canada’s landmass, has no roads, no transmission lines, and no bridge to the rest of the country. 5. She says every community, hospital, school, and mine in Nunavut runs on diesel, with 138 million litres imported each year. 6. She explains that Nukik was created in 2021 by the Kivalliq Inuit Association and Saku Investments Corporation. 7. Audouin says the Kivalliq Inuit Association owns 51% of Nukik and Saku Investments Corporation owns 49%. 8. She describes the project as a public-service-type build that needs strong federal participation because of the population base and capital cost. 9. Audouin says Nunavut’s infrastructure deficit is a political problem, not an engineering problem. 10. She recounts how the federal government colonized the Arctic in the 1950s and 1960s and created settlements that changed Inuit mobility. 11. Audouin says dogs were taken away and slaughtered to keep Inuit people from continuing a nomadic way of life. 12. She says diesel plants were provided as the basic infrastructure solution for the new hamlets. 13. Audouin says she sees diesel fumes in Rankin Inlet when she opens her curtains and goes outside. 14. She says Nunavut was created in 1999, making the territory still young and still maturing through devolution and legislation. 15. She says her own background is in environmental law, natural resources management, mining in Western Africa, and hydropower in Canada. 16. Audouin says she joined Nukik in 2022 and overhauled the corporation into divisions for generation, transmission, and energy consulting. 17. She says Nukik has MISO certification, which makes it the first and only Arctic electricity developer certified by a U.S. regional transmission organization. 18. Audouin says communities tell Nukik not to come back until it has started building, because they want the infrastructure now. 19. The conversation is interview-based, direct, and policy-heavy, with long explanations about Arctic sovereignty, federal bureaucracy, and capital costs. 20. Listeners interested in Indigenous-led infrastructure, Arctic energy, and Canadian policy will get the most from it.

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