Dumpcano cost Iqaluit $2.7M and counting

The tally of expenses for Iqaluit’s four-month dump fire this summer has already reached $2,750,000.

The city’s reserve fund will cover it, but one councillor is still angry the Nunavut government didn’t provide financial support.

"I know that the fire was a municipal problem,” says Romeyn Stevenson. “I know that it was the responsibility of the municipality to put it out, and it was us who caused it. But the GN can't say that they don't have any blame from the fact that they haven't been adequate in their help with all the municipalities in dealing with waste management."

In August, Iqaluit city council passed a motion to spend whatever it takes to extinguish the fire.

It burned for four months.