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Environmental Agreement Negotiation Record, Ekati Diamond Mine (Multiple parties, 1997)
6 January 1997Regulatory Filing
A legally binding environmental agreement dated January 6, 1997 between Canada, the Government of the Northwest Territories, and BHP Diamonds Inc. (on behalf of itself and the Blackwater Group) establishing the Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency and setting out comprehensive environmental management, monitoring, reporting, and closure requirements for the Ekati Diamond Mine project near Lac de Gras in the Northwest Territories.
Environmental Agreement Closure & Reclamation Monitoring
Kimberlite Studies Collection (BHP Billiton, 1997 to 2004)
1997–2004Report
Kimberlite Studies binder for the Ekati Diamond Mine (1998-2004). Includes Ian Goodwin (BHPB) distribution of the 2003 Wildlife Effects Monitoring Program (WEMP) Draft Report and "Aquatic Toxicity Associated with Diamond Ore (Kimberlite) Mining" report (Appendices 2-4), Red Pederson (Agency) comment letter on toxicity identification evaluation and health/body-condition assessment, BHP Terms of Reference for a Kimberlite Toxicity Study under Water Licence N7L2-1616 (January 6 1998, Steve Harbicht recipient), ETL Enviro Test Chemspec Analytical Ltd. laboratory data, Pascoe / Evans / Woodworth (1986) heavy-metal-toxicity / water-hardness references, and Kimberlite Elemental Whole Rock Analysis tables for Misery, Panda, Fox, Leslie, Koala pits.
Kimberlite Tailings Waste Rock Aquatics
Traditional Knowledge Study of Ek'ati (YKDFN, 1997)
~1997Report
Approximate date — inferred from filename
This 1997 traditional knowledge study documents the history, territory, and environmental knowledge of the Weledeh Yellowknives Dene First Nation regarding Ek'ati (Lac de Gras), an area planned for diamond mining development. The report includes extensive recommendations for minimizing mining impacts on ancestral sites, water resources, wildlife, and the people's continued use of their traditional lands.
Traditional Knowledge Yellowknives Dene Wildlife
The Failure of Environmental Assessment in Canada (Andrew Nikiforuk, January 1997)
1 January 1997Report
This 1997 report by Andrew Nikiforuk, commissioned by the Walter & Duncan Gordon Foundation, critically examines the failures of federal environmental assessment in Canada. The document argues that the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA) has become a flawed, politically discretionary process that violates basic EA principles, using the BHP diamond mine in the Northwest Territories as a primary case study of systemic failures in assessment rigor, independence, and compliance.
Development Plans Regulatory Environmental Agreement Traditional Knowledge Water Quality Wildlife
Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Inuit and Cree in the Hudson Bay Bioregion, Voices from the Bay (Canadian Arctic Resources Committee, 1997)
~1997Report
Approximate date — inferred from filename
This comprehensive research report documents the traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) of Inuit and Cree peoples regarding environmental changes in the Hudson Bay and James Bay bioregion. Compiled from three years of community-based research involving 78 participants from 28 communities, the report records indigenous knowledge about seasonal cycles, marine currents, sea ice conditions, wildlife behavior, and ecosystem components, alongside observations of environmental changes caused by industrial development including hydroelectric projects, mining, and shipping.
Traditional Knowledge Community-Based Monitoring Wildlife Caribou
BHP Billiton Environmental Workshops Correspondence, Agendas & Summaries (BHP Billiton, 1997 to 2005)
1997–2005Report
BHP Environmental Workshops binder for the Ekati Diamond Mine (1997-2005). Includes Final Report of the Reclamation and Closure Workshop February 2005 (Chris Hanks BHPB response), Notice and Agendas for BHP Billiton's February 2002 Environmental Workshops (John Witteman BHP, Camille Douglas BHP Billiton), December 11-12 2001 WEMP / AEMP Technical Workshops, and BHP HR contact lists (Joe Aknavigak, Darrell Beaulieu, Larry Bus, Berkely Ahmad, etc. Yellowknife area codes 403 in the late-1990s era).
Monitoring Aquatics Wildlife
Panda Diversion Channel (PDC) Surveillance and Effects Monitoring Program, Binder, Ekati Diamond Mine (BHP Billiton, 1997–2007)
1997–2007Report
Panda Diversion Channel (PDC) Surveillance and Effects Monitoring Program (SEMP) binder for the Ekati Diamond Mine (1997-2007). Annual PDC reports from BHPB (Brent Murphy distribution 2005-2007 to Kevin O'Reilly, Agency), DIAND Water Resources comments (Francis Jackson, May 2002) on AEMP refinements and re-evaluation and aquatic baseline collection for Sable / Pigeon / Beartooth, Dillon Consulting Limited 1997 Stream Habitat Compensation Program creation/enhancement/monitoring/maintenance plans, YOY Arctic Grayling numbers per habitat-assessment site (1998-2001 at sites DCH1, DCH2, DCH4, DCH9, DCH10, DCH11, DCH15) with mean fork-length growth tracking August-September 2001, PDC and tributary habitat stability, Stabilization, Sediment Mitigation, and Sediment Management short-term plans.
Aquatics Fish Habitat Aquatic Effects Monitoring (AEMP)
Wildlife Effects Monitoring Program (WEMP) Correspondence and Records File, Ekati Diamond Mine (BHP Billiton, 1997 to 2006)
1997–2006Report
Wildlife Effects Monitoring Program (WEMP) Binder 1 for the Ekati Diamond Mine (BHP Billiton Diamonds — BHPB) covering 1997-2005. Includes Draft WEMP 2004 (Brent Murphy distribution), wolverine population abundance studies (Susan Fleck, RWED — Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development), David Scott reviews, Wildlife Incident Reports (collared caribou removals — Wytrychowski Diavik, Robert Mulders, Holly Newton), the BHP Koala Camp 1997 Collared Caribou Association Survey synthesis, Kodiak Lake Sewage Effects Monitoring, 2001 Aquatics and Wildlife Monitoring Program workshops, Vulture Lake reference-lake appropriateness questions, snow core survey analysis, and caribou behaviour scan-sampling methodology.
Wildlife Caribou Wolverine Habitat Assessment
Environmental Programs, Ekati Diamond Mine (BHP Billiton, 1997)
~1997Report
Approximate date — inferred from filename
BHP's 1997 environmental programs document outlines monitoring and research initiatives required under water licenses, fisheries authorizations, and environmental agreements for the NWT Diamonds Project (Ekati mine), including fish removal, water quality monitoring, wildlife studies, and five Phase II Traditional Knowledge programs conducted with Aboriginal groups in the Northwest Territories.
Monitoring Traditional Knowledge Water Quality
BHP Environmental Report 97, Covering Fiscal Year 1995 to 1996 (BHP Billiton, 1997)
~1997Report
Approximate date — inferred from filename
BHP's first comprehensive public environmental report covering fiscal year 1995-96, detailing the company's environmental policies, management systems, and performance across its four main business divisions (Minerals, Copper, Steel, and Petroleum) operating in 70 countries, with specific focus on emissions, discharges, resource consumption, and community engagement initiatives.
Development Plans Air Quality Water Quality Wildlife
Construction Phase Environmental Management Plan Review File, Ekati Diamond Mine (BHP Billiton, November 1996 to October 1997)
1996Report
BHP Construction Phase Environmental Management Plan binder for the Ekati Diamond Mine (1995-1997). Correspondence between Jim Excell (BHP), Red Pedersen (Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency / Agency), and NWT Water Board. Includes the Agency's Report on BHP's Construction Phase Environmental Management Plan with critiques of monitoring frequency/criteria/thresholds and rationale for component selection, thermal-measurement methodology (point-source limitations), Appendix B Letter of Clarification to BHP, and Appendix I NWT Spill Report Form templates for gas / hazardous chemicals.
Development Plans Correspondence Monitoring
Northern Perspectives, Fall/Winter 1996, Volume 24 (CARC, Fall/Winter 1996)
1 October 1996Report
This Northern Perspectives journal issue (Fall/Winter 1996) publishes CARC's critical analysis of the BHP diamond mine environmental assessment panel process and recommendations, including detailed letters to federal ministers outlining procedural deficiencies and specific conditions for project approval. The document critiques the assessment as fundamentally flawed—not comprehensive, rigorous, or fair—and identifies systemic failures in environmental review processes in the North.
Development Plans Environmental Agreement Traditional Knowledge Water Quality Wildlife Closure & Reclamation
Workshop for an Environmental Agreement for the BHP Diamonds Project (DIAND, September 1996)
23 September 1996Report
Workshop held September 23-24, 1996 at Prince of Wales Heritage Centre to discuss negotiation of an Environmental Agreement for the BHP Diamonds Project in Lac de Gras, NWT. The document includes workshop agenda, framework for establishing an Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency, possible terms of the Environmental Agreement, and eight backgrounders covering the project approval, land claims, economic benefits, environmental assessment process, West Kitikmeot Slave Study, protected areas strategy, and federal response to 29 panel recommendations.
Environmental Agreement Board Meetings Traditional Knowledge Wildlife
NWT Diamonds Project, Report of the Environmental Assessment Panel (Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, June 1996)
1 June 1996Report
The Federal Environmental Assessment Panel's June 1996 report on BHP Diamonds Inc. and the Blackwater Group's proposed NWT Diamonds Project (Ekati Diamond Mine) evaluates the environmental and socio-economic effects of five diamond-bearing kimberlite pipes near Lac de Gras in the Northwest Territories, recommending project approval subject to extensive conditions addressing baseline information adequacy, land claims, traditional knowledge integration, environmental management, monitoring, and socio-economic mitigation.
Development Plans Traditional Knowledge Environmental Agreement
NWT Diamonds Project, Report of the Environmental Assessment Panel (Environmental Assessment Panel, June 1996)
1 June 1996Report
This is the June 1996 Report of the Environmental Assessment Panel reviewing BHP Diamonds Inc. and the Blackwater Group's proposed NWT Diamonds Project, a 25-year diamond mining operation near Lac de Gras in the Northwest Territories involving open-pit and underground mining of five kimberlite pipes. The Panel recommends approval of the Project subject to numerous conditions addressing environmental management, Aboriginal consultation, land claims, traditional knowledge integration, monitoring programs, and socio-economic considerations.
Development Plans Traditional Knowledge Environmental Agreement
Report of the Environmental Assessment Panel, NWT Diamonds Project (Environmental Assessment Panel, June 1996)
1 June 1996Report
This is the June 1996 report of the Federal Environmental Assessment Commission evaluating the proposed Ekati Diamond Mine in the Northwest Territories, examining environmental and socio-economic impacts of BHP Diamonds Inc. and Blackwater Group's proposal to develop five kimberlite deposits near Gras Lake approximately 300 km northeast of Yellowknife. The Commission concludes the project can proceed subject to 40+ detailed recommendations regarding territorial claims, traditional knowledge integration, regulatory frameworks, environmental monitoring, water and air quality management, wildlife protection, Indigenous consultation, employment, and compensation mechanisms.
Development Plans Environmental Agreement Traditional Knowledge
Table of Contents, Public Hearings (IEMA, January 1996)
21 March 1996Report
Table of contents listing 18 public hearings held in January and February 1996 across Northwest Territories communities, covering environmental management, water, wildlife, socioeconomics, and traditional knowledge topics.
Development Plans Traditional Knowledge Water Quality
Table of Contents, Written Submissions & Presentations, Public Hearings, BHP NWT Diamonds Project (CEE Agency, March 1996)
5 March 1996Report
This is a comprehensive table of contents documenting written submissions and presentations received for public hearings related to the BHP NWT Diamonds Project, covering submissions from January 23 to February 23, 1996, from diverse stakeholders including indigenous communities, government agencies, industry associations, environmental organizations, and individual citizens.
Board Meetings Development Plans Traditional Knowledge Wildlife Water Quality
Table of Contents, Written Submissions to Public Hearings, NWT Diamonds Project (MVEIRB, March 1996)
5 March 1996Report
This is a table of contents documenting written submissions received for public hearings on the NWT Diamonds Project (Ekati Diamond Mine), compiled on March 5, 1996, listing 78 documents from government agencies, indigenous groups, environmental organizations, industry representatives, and individuals received between January 19 and February 23, 1996.
Development Plans Regulatory Traditional Knowledge Air Quality
Table of Contents, Written Submissions to Public Hearings, NWT Diamonds Project (Federal Environmental Assessment Panel, February 1996)
5 March 1996Report
Table of contents documenting written submissions and presentations to public hearings for the NWT Diamond Mine (Ekati) project, received between January 23 and February 23, 1996, organized by submission number with dates and submitting parties from government, industry, environmental groups, indigenous organizations, and individuals.
Board Meetings Development Plans Traditional Knowledge Wildlife

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