Université Laval is trying to set the record straight after Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation published a poster saying the university's research station in Pond Inlet, Nunavut, won't be built if the Mary River Mine phase two expansion isn't approved, according to CBC Canada.

A poster from Baffinland circulating in Pond Inlet about the commitments the community will lose it doesn't support the expansion says that a "No" to phase two of its project from the Nunavut Impact Review Board would equate to a "No to a Pond Inlet Research Station in Partnership with Université Laval."

But Gilles Gauthier, the Scientific Director for the Centre of Northern Studies at Université Laval, says that's not true. Gauthier says the project is independent from Baffinland and they have no formal agreement with the mine.

Gauthier says Baffinland offered to ship up the material to build the Pond Inlet research station, which is scheduled to be built in 2023. This commitment makes up about five per cent of the project's $17.5 million budget, and without it Gauthier says there is still the money to go ahead.