The ice conditions in Nunatsiavut is making it hard for anyone to travel between communities and even just to gather wood and hunt for subsistence.
Rex Holwell Junior is the Nunatsiavut Operations Lead for Smart Ice in Nain.
Holwell says that he went out to test the ice at Edwards Cove and says that while he was testing the ice in areas from Nain, the ice is only 1 foot thick in some areas and 1 and a half foot thick in other areas.
There is a lot of slob in the Kauk Harbour area, and that the ice is only 1 foot thick there.
Karen Dicker is the Town Clerk and she says that they have hired two local people to set out markers from Nain to Natuashish and that this has not started yet because there is not enough ice.
She adds that the men are currently painting the markers and they will decide what they will do after the weather clears.
In Makkovik, Barry Andersen is the AngajukKâk, he says that markers were put out from Makkovik to Little Neck and that the thickness of the ice is only 14 to 23 inches thick.
Andersen adds that there is no ice passed the Makkovik Moravian Church.
There has been no markers set from Postville to Little Neck because the ice is too thin and there is too much slob.
Andersen says that markers are being set out today from Makkovik to Witch Doctor Lake today.
We will have the ice conditions for you from Hopedale and Rigolet once they become available.