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Sable, Pigeon and Beartooth Kimberlite Pipes Information Requests and Responses (BHP Billiton, August 2000)
1 August 2000Regulatory Filing
BHP Diamonds Inc. submitted responses to information requests from multiple regulatory agencies regarding the proposed expansion of the Ekati Diamond Mine to include three new kimberlite pipes (Sable, Pigeon, and Beartooth). The document addresses technical and environmental concerns raised by Environment Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, the Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency, and the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development regarding mining methods, transportation alternatives, water quality impacts, waste rock management, caribou effects, and traditional knowledge integration.
Development Plans Regulatory Water Quality Fish Habitat
Conformity Response, Sable, Pigeon & Beartooth Kimberlite Pipes, Ekati Diamond Mine (BHP Billiton, July 2000)
1 July 2000Regulatory Filing
BHP Diamonds Inc.'s conformity response to the Review Board addressing six non-conformity items regarding the proposed development of Sable, Pigeon, and Beartooth kimberlite pipes at Ekati Diamond Mine, including temporary shutdown procedures, migratory bird habitat assessment, kimberlite toxicity testing, vegetation classifications, temporal boundaries for environmental assessment, and quarry site selection for construction materials.
Development Plans Closure & Reclamation Wildlife Air Quality
Sable, Pigeon & Beartooth Kimberlite Pipes Information Requests and Responses (BHP Billiton, July 2000)
1 July 2000Regulatory Filing
This document is a compilation of environmental assessment information requests and responses from multiple Canadian federal agencies (Environment Canada, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development) regarding BHP's proposed expansion of the Ekati Diamond Mine to develop the Sable, Pigeon, and Beartooth kimberlite pipes in the Northwest Territories, covering topics including meteorology, hydrology, water quality, air quality, waste rock management, and aquatic effects monitoring.
Development Plans Regulatory Water Quality Aquatics
Information Requests Response, Sable, Pigeon & Beartooth Kimberlite Pipes Environmental Assessment (BHP Billiton, July 2000)
1 July 2000Regulatory Filing
This compilation of information requests and responses addresses environmental assessment questions from Environment Canada, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, and Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development regarding BHP's proposed expansion of the Ekati Diamond Mine to include Sable, Pigeon, and Beartooth kimberlite pipes. The document covers meteorological data, water balance, air quality impacts, waste rock management, sediment quality, and hydrological design parameters for the proposed development.
Development Plans Monitoring Air Quality
BHP Environment and Community Report 2000 (BHP Billiton, June 2000)
30 June 2000Report
BHP's Corporate Environment and Community Report 2000 presents the company's environmental and social performance across its global mining, petroleum, and steel operations for the 13-month period ending 30 June 2000. The report outlines BHP's integrated Health, Safety, Environment and Community Policy, management standards, project lifecycle approaches, and performance against targets aligned with the company's goal of zero harm to people and the environment.
Development Plans Air Quality Water Quality Waste Rock Wildlife
NWT Greenhouse Gas Strategy, Draft #2 Working Committee Final Report (GNWT, May 2000)
6 May 2000Report
This NWT Greenhouse Gas Strategy working committee final report outlines a framework for controlling greenhouse gas emissions in the Northwest Territories in response to the Kyoto Protocol obligations. It identifies 13 early action measures and 5 measures requiring further analysis, with estimated emissions reductions and implementation costs.
Greenhouse Gas Air Quality Development Plans Regulatory
Environmental Impact Report 2000, Ekati Diamond Mine (BHP Billiton, April 2000)
25 April 2000Report
BHP Diamonds Inc.'s Environmental Impact Report 2000 assesses the biophysical effects of the Ekati Diamond Mine on valued ecosystem components from June 1996 through December 1999, comparing actual performance against predictions in the 1995 Environmental Impact Statement and describing adaptive management strategies, monitoring programs, and reclamation efforts.
Development Plans Monitoring Water Quality
EnergySpeak Newsletter, Issue 2 (Arctic Energy Alliance, April 2000)
1 April 2000Report
EnergySpeak Issue #2 (April 2000) is a quarterly newsletter from the Arctic Energy Alliance promoting renewable energy technologies in northern Canada. The issue announces a partnership with Natural Resources Canada and features articles on wind turbines, solar air heating (SOLARWALL®), photovoltaic systems, and the Renewable Energy Deployment Initiative (REDI) funding program, along with residential and business energy-saving tips.
Greenhouse Gas Development Plans
Environmental Impact Report 2000, Ekati Diamond Mine (BHP Billiton, April 2000)
1 April 2000Report
BHP Diamonds Inc.'s Environmental Impact Report for 2000 documents the biophysical effects and impacts of the Ekati Diamond Mine on valued ecosystem components from June 1996 through December 1999, comparing actual performance against predictions in the 1995 Environmental Impact Statement and describing adaptive management strategies employed to mitigate environmental effects.
Development Plans Monitoring Wildlife
Environmental Impact Report 2000, Ekati Diamond Mine (BHP Billiton, April 2000)
1 April 2000Report
BHP Diamonds Inc.'s Environmental Impact Report 2000 assesses the biophysical effects and impacts of the Ekati Diamond Mine on valued ecosystem components from June 1996 through December 1999, comparing actual performance against predictions made in the 1995 Environmental Impact Statement. The report covers exploration, construction, and operational phases of Canada's first diamond mine in the Northwest Territories, including adaptive management strategies, environmental monitoring programs, and reclamation efforts.
Development Plans Monitoring Aquatics
Information Package on the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA '99) (Environment Canada, March 2000)
31 March 2000Report
Speaking notes and information package explaining the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA '99), which came into force on March 31, 2000. The document covers the Act's key objectives, administrative structures, public participation mechanisms, toxic substance controls, pollution prevention, waste management, and enforcement tools.
Regulatory Development Plans Water Quality Air Quality
Building Better Cumulative Effects Assessments, Participants Resource Binder (Banff Centre for Management, March 2000)
2000Report
Cumulative Effects Assessment — Participants Resource Binder from Banff Cumulative Environmental Effects (CE) workshop, March 1997. Sessions led by Bill Ross (University of Calgary), Jeff Green (AXYS), with appraisers (Vicki Robin Elford), Telus (Lionel Peel) and others. Covers urban EIA / more CE / more people, CE assessment perspectives, definitions and context, difficulties undertaking CEA. Includes "A Guide to Environmental Assessments: Assessing Cumulative Effects" (March 1997 — Authorities and Reference Appendix), Canadian Environmental Assessment Act Reference Guide for cumulative effects, and Central Rockies ecosystem / Banff National Park ecological integrity and interjurisdictional land-management cooperation case study.
Development Plans Monitoring Wildlife Water Quality Air Quality
Summary Report, Environmental Agreement Annual Report 1999 & Environmental Impact Report 2000, Ekati Diamond Mine (BHP Billiton, March 2000)
~2000Report
Approximate date — inferred from filename
BHP's Environmental Agreement Annual Report 1999 and Environmental Impact Report 2000 document the company's environmental management programs and monitoring activities at the Ekati Diamond Mine in the Northwest Territories, covering monitoring of air quality, water, wildlife, and archaeological sites over the first three years of mine operations from 1996-1999.
Environmental Agreement Monitoring Air Quality
Operating Environmental Management Plan and Supporting Documents A to F, Ekati Diamond Mine (BHP Billiton, February 2000)
2000Report
EKATI Diamond Mine Operating Environmental Management Plan (OEMP) Supporting Documents A-F (February 2000, BHP Diamonds Inc., Yellowknife). Includes Support Document D Spill and General Contingency Plan, the Waste Management Plan (Section 3.0 Contingency Planning for improper disposal / fire / extreme weather and safety-cease procedures for landfill operations), Air Quality Management & Monitoring Plan QA for ambient air monitoring systems (per US EPA Quality Assurance Handbook for Air Pollutant Measurement Systems), and references to Pomeroy / Marsh / Jones / Davies "Spatial Distribution of Snow Chemical Load at the Tundra-Taiga Transition" (Biogeochemistry of Seasonally Snow-covered Catchments).
Development Plans Regulatory Air Quality
NWT Greenhouse Gas Reduction Strategy Draft Report (BHP Billiton, November 1999)
1999Report
NWT Greenhouse Gas Reduction Strategy Draft Report, November 1999, prepared by Dillon Consulting Limited, Terriplan Consultants Limited, and Lawson Environmental for the Government of the Northwest Territories Resources Wildlife & Economic Development (GNWT-RWED, Yellowknife — Mr Henderson, Project 99-6765). Includes anti-idling consultation summaries with Toronto Transit Commission, GO Transit, Ontario Motor Coach Association, Greyhound Lines, OMOEE, and Ontario Ministry; City of Toronto Board of Health Report 09 (1996) Mayor's Anti-Smog Working Group; references to Environment Canada Global Climate Change Program, Ft. McPherson Residual Heat Distribution (Farrell 1997), and NWT Power Corporation Great Slave Lake DC Link Study (Cominco Engineering Services Limited).
Greenhouse Gas Air Quality Development Plans Regulatory
Energy Speak Newsletter, Issue 1 (Arctic Energy Alliance, November 1999)
1 November 1999Report
The Arctic Energy Alliance's first newsletter (November 1999) presents the organization's mission to reduce energy costs and environmental impact in the NWT through energy efficiency and renewable energy adoption. The issue covers Y2K preparedness for power infrastructure, energy management strategies, global climate change and NWT emissions reduction initiatives, and features projects like natural gas conversion in Inuvik and community energy assessments.
Greenhouse Gas Air Quality Correspondence Regulatory
Air Quality Monitoring, Ekati Diamond Mine (BHP Billiton, May 1999)
1999Report
BHP Diamonds Inc. 1998 Air Quality Monitoring Annual Report (Yellowknife, May 3 1999). Documents NOx/SOx emissions and lichen-based bioindication of ambient air quality (sulphur correlations, Laaksovirta & Olkkonen 1977/1979; Manninen et al. 1991), with eutrophication risks of nitrogen deposition (Wetzel 1983), and tissue metals analytical results at monitoring stations AQ-1 and AQ-6 in the Project Area (August 1998 — Lithium, Molybdenum, Nickel, Selenium, Silver, Strontium, Thallium, Titanium, Uranium, Vanadium, Zinc, Mercury). Includes detection-limit data and station maps.
Air Quality Monitoring Particulate Matter
Air Quality Monitoring Report, Ekati Diamond Mine (BHP Billiton, April 1999)
30 April 1999Report
BHP's 1998 Air Quality Monitoring Report for the Ekati Diamond Mine documents emissions calculations, high-volume air sampling results showing elevated TSP levels in May and July, snow survey chemistry analysis identifying mine-related metal deposition in the Koala watershed, and lichen tissue biomonitoring detecting significantly elevated trace metals near mining operations compared to control areas.
Air Quality Monitoring Particulate Matter
Air Quality Monitoring at the Ekati Diamond Mine Using Vegetation and Lichens as Bioindicators (ABR Inc., 1999)
1 April 1999Report
This report documents the initial air quality monitoring program at the Ekati Diamond Mine using vegetation and lichens as bioindicators, including a comprehensive literature review on the use of lichens and mosses for detecting atmospheric contaminants and 1998 baseline results comparing trace metal concentrations in lichen tissue between project area and reference area stations.
Air Quality Monitoring Particulate Matter Development Plans Water Quality
Environmental Agreement Annual Report, EKATI Diamond Mine (BHP Billiton, 1998)
1 February 1999Report
BHP Diamonds Inc.'s 1998 Environmental Annual Report documents the first year of full diamond mining operations at the Ekati Diamond Mine in the Northwest Territories, detailing environmental management practices, monitoring programs, and operational sustainability across water, air, wildlife, and land resources.
Development Plans Monitoring Water Quality

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