The new financial tool offered by the Société du Plan Nord: the Northern Infrastructure Funding Envelope in Support of the Mining Sector
(ENIAM) will be explained. It aims to provide financial support for strategic infrastructure projects incorporating a multi-user perspective, in support of the mining sector and for the benefit of communities in the northern territory. Projects can be studies or implementation of transportation, energy distribution, or telecommunications infrastructure projects.
The Société du Plan Nord can help facilitate the implementation of strategic infrastructure at all different stages of projects; needs identification; planification; feasibility studies; partners identification and project realization. Examples of the main infrastructure projects supported by SPN in Nunavik within the 23-28 Action Plan will be given: submarine and terrestrial fiber optics, marina studies, Puvirnituq aqueduct study, incinerator and waste transportation study.
The Société du Plan Nord has also launched in 2025 a web platform to simplify interactions between contracting authorities (project promoters), suppliers and other stakeholders committed to economic development in the northern territory. The
Réseau d’affaires nordiques is a free and bilingual tool designed to maximize the economic benefits from major investments, both public and private, for the benefits of the suppliers located near the projects. This tool will be introduced to the attendees.
