Friday, March 20, 2026
BQE Water Inc. announced March 19 it has entered into a three-year agreement with Canadian Royalties Inc. (CRI) to operate mine water treatment plants at CRI’s Nunavik Nickel Project operations.
Mine water treatment at Nunavik Nickel involves seasonal operation of five treatment systems, typically running from May to October depending on the volume of water requiring treatment., a BQE Water release said.
This new contract expands the scope of our existing partnership with Inuit communities centered around water stewardship in Nunavik and will support the growth and strengthening of BQE’s core expertise in mine water treatment operations in Eastern Canada in general and Quebec in particular,” BQE Water president David Kratochvil said.
“Clean water is essential to our communities, and we are very pleased that CRI selected BQE-Nuvumiut for the role that helps ensure the environment is protected,” Nuvumiut Developments Inc. president Adamie Alaku added.
Canadian Royalties Inc. is a private mining company based in Montreal that owns and operates the Nunavik Nickel Project which includes open pit and underground mines and a concentrator plant to produce copper and nickel sulphide concentrates, the release said.
BQE Water Nuvumiut Development Inc. is a joint venture between BQE Water and Nuvumiut Development which is a company fully owned in equal share by Qaqqalik Landholding Corporation of Salluit and Nunaturlik Landholding Corporation of Kangiqsujuaq, it added.
