The community of Rankin Inlet is located within the Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, on the west coast of Hudson Bay. The community is in a zone of continuous permafrost, which has an active layer of approximately one metre. The Rankin Inlet Fuel Facility is being upgraded. As part of the upgrade, approximately 5,000 cubic metres of hydrocarbon-contaminated soils must be removed from the site and remediated. Contaminated soils are remediated in a lined engineered landfarm. The existing landfarm is located adjacent to the new Rankin Inlet Municipal Solid Waste Site. It will be accessed from the same road. The Government of Nunavut in consultation with the Hamlet of Rankin Inlet selected the site. In 2021, the landfarm experienced large deposit of impacted soil from both PPD spill and other agencies in the community. This implied PPD for an expansion to the existing landfarm which is proposed to construct in May 2022.