Nukik Corporation's Anne-Raphaëlle Audouin: Connecting Nunavut to the Continental Grid

About this episode

Anne-Raphaëlle Audouin discusses the Kivalliq Hydro-Fibre Link project and its significance for Nunavut's economy.

In April 2025, the Premiers of Manitoba and Nunavut signed a joint declaration to create a strategic energy and economic corridor between the two jurisdictions. Manitoba repatriated expiring hydro export contracts to the US and carved out 50 megawatts specifically for the Kivalliq Hydro-Fibre Link. As Anne-Raphaëlle Audouin, CEO of Nukik Corporation, explains in this episode: until that moment, the project had a concept but no product to flow through the transmission line. That declaration changed everything. In Part 2 of this two-episode conversation, Anne-Raphaëlle takes Mark Magnacca and Rob Brant inside the project itself - its full specification, its commercial architecture, and the one remaining obstacle between concept and construction. The Kivalliq Hydro-Fibre Link is a 1,200-kilometre dual-use transmission and fibre optic asset running from Churchill in northern Manitoba to five of the Kivalliq region's seven communities. Its anchor customer is Agnico Eagle Mines which Anne-Raphaelle describes as the largest Canadian gold miner and the second-largest gold miner in the world with two operating mines in the region for close to 20 years. Mining represents 75% of Nunavut's…

People in this episode

Hosts: Mark Magnacca, Rob Brant

Guest: Anne-Raphaëlle Audouin

Topics covered

• energy corridor
• hydro export
• Kivalliq Hydro-Fibre Link
• mining economy
• Nunavut GDP

Keywords

• Kivalliq Hydro-Fibre Link
• energy corridor
• Agnico Eagle Mines
• Nunavut
• Manitoba
• hydro export contracts
• mining

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Nukik Corporation, Agnico Eagle Mines

Places: Manitoba, Nunavut, Kivalliq

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