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The Northwest Territories Water Board has established procedural guidelines for conducting public hearings, detailing requirements for applicant presentations, intervenor interventions, hearing conduct, questioning protocols, and administrative procedures.
Workshop proceedings documenting a September 1997 gathering in Northwest River, Labrador, convened by the Institute for Environmental Monitoring and Research to explore how traditional Aboriginal environmental knowledge and Western scientific knowledge can be integrated into environmental research and monitoring. The proceedings include presentations by Indigenous elders and scientists on knowledge systems, resource management practices, ethical research guidelines, and collaborative approaches to environmental stewardship.
Air Quality Monitoring Binder 3 for the Ekati Diamond Mine (BHP Billiton). Includes April 24 GNWT air-quality and emissions meeting notes (May 2008), 2005 Air Quality Monitoring Program and CALPUFF Air Dispersion Modelling Assessment reports release, Air Quality Management and Monitoring Plan (AQMP) status updates by Eric Denholm (BHPB) and Carole Mills (IEMA), Rescan ISC3 modelling commentary, BHP diesel-fuel emission factors (0.84 t SOx and 58.8 t NOx per million litres of diesel; ~50 million litres/year), and reprints of Pomeroy & Jones (1996) "Wind-Blown Snow: Sublimation, Transport and Changes to Polar Snow" (NATO ASI Series Vol I 43).
Aboriginal and Community Issues (Miscellaneous) Binder for the Ekati / NWT diamond mining sector (1998-2004). Includes Deh Cho First Nations Interim Measures Agreement territorial-boundary map and Appendix II Draft Guidelines for the Development of a Deh Cho Land Use Plan, North Slave Metis Alliance (NSMA) correspondence, GNWT correspondence, Diavik Diamond Mines Inc. (Joe Carrabba, President, April 30 2004) letter to Hon. Andy Mitchell, Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (Ottawa), and academic references on tribal mineral resource development (American Indian Law Review 9, 161-194, 1981) and mineral taxation in developing countries (Palmer 1980).
This is a consultation workbook produced by the Constitutional Working Group presenting two approaches and four models for developing a new constitution and system of government for the western Northwest Territories after territorial division in 1999. The document outlines how Aboriginal self-governments and territorial public government could work together, addressing Aboriginal peoples' inherent right to self-government while maintaining democratic representation and Canadian constitutional consistency.
Misery Development binder for the Ekati Diamond Mine (1998-2002). Includes Misery Pit site maps with explosives magazines, impervious dam, ore stockpile, Thinner Lake, King Pond, Cujo Lake (UTM coordinates near 537,370E / 7,162,000N), AMEC Earth Materials (Calgary, October 2001) precipitation modelling of 10,000 mg/L chloride from calcium-chloride systems and sulfate-salt precipitation, John Witteman (BHP) facsimile to Peter McCart on Misery Pit Year 2000 site layout (Treated Sewage discharge, Freshwater Intake, North/East/South Waste Rock Dumps, Year 2006 Misery Pit configuration), and correspondence with Melody McLeod (MVLWB), Laurie Cordell (MVLWB Misery Waste Rock Dam approval staff report), and Zabey Nevitt (IEMA) on Desperation Pond cofferdams.
Cumulative Effects Assessment (CEA) binder for the Ekati Diamond Mine area (2001-2002). Includes Francois Messier (University of Saskatchewan) for EMAB Cumulative Impacts and the Bathurst Caribou Herd report (proposed tools for assessing effects), Anne Gunn (GNWT RWED), Lorraine Seale, Environment Canada (Prairie and Northern Region) and Yellowknives Dene First Nation (Rachel Crapeau) participation, Workshop on Preliminary NWT Cumulative Effects Assessment and Management Framework (CEAMF) January 8-February 8 2001, and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency CEA Practitioners Guide (140-page state-of-the-art guide, English/French).
This technical overview working document outlines the Aquatic Effects Monitoring Program (AEMP) for the BHP Diamonds Project (Ekati Diamond Mine), detailing the framework for monitoring aquatic environments during all project phases. The program employs a tiered approach combining water quality measurements, sediment analysis, and biological community assessment across reference and potentially impacted lakes and streams to detect project-related impacts and test environmental predictions from the EIA.
"The Use of Traditional Knowledge in the Environmental Management of Ekati" binder for the Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency (IEMA, Yellowknife). Includes TK planning meeting notes and participants list, Excerpts from BHP's Environmental Agreement and BHP's Environmental Agreement Annual Report (Part B), West Kitikmeot Slave Study (WKSS) funded studies, Lutsel K'e Dene gathering of Dene way-of-life knowledge (Dene ch'anie) and Chipewyan terminology for species/habitat in the Gahcho Kue area (December 8 1998 Lutsel K'e Dene letter), 1997 discovery of 30 new archaeological sites with re-recording of three previously documented sites, and BHP-Metis Impact and Benefits Agreement negotiation tensions.
This draft Wildlife Monitoring Plan for BHP's Ekati Diamond Mine outlines a risk-based framework for monitoring impacts on valued ecosystem components (VECs) including caribou, grizzly bears, wolves, wolverines, and birds. The plan details monitoring hypotheses, implementation strategies, and measurement endpoints for tracking mine-related stressors from construction through post-closure phases.
This final geochemical characterization report for BHP Diamonds' proposed diamond mine in the Northwest Territories evaluates the acid/alkaline rock drainage potential of waste rock, ore (kimberlite), and tailings through static and kinetic testing methods. The study predicts water quality from mine facilities including waste rock dumps, pits, underground workings, ore stockpiles, and tailings, identifying the Misery Schist Waste Rock Dump as a potential source of acidic drainage with elevated metal concentrations, while most other facilities are expected to remain benign.
This is the 1997 Environmental Agreement Annual Report for the Ekati Diamond Mine, Canada's first diamond mine located in the Northwest Territories barrenlands, providing a comprehensive plain-English summary of environmental monitoring programs across water quality, aquatic life, wildlife, vegetation, and cultural heritage throughout the first year of mine construction and operations.
BHP Diamonds Inc. submits a comprehensive Waste Rock and Ore Storage Management Plan for the Ekati Diamond Mine in the Northwest Territories, detailing the geochemical characterization of rock types from five kimberlite pipes (Panda, Koala, Misery, Fox, and Leslie), acid/alkaline rock drainage potential, and management strategies for waste disposal over the mine's operational life and closure.
This report presents the results of the 1997 Kodiak Lake Sewage Effects Study, a three-year monitoring program initiated to examine the effects of treated sewage effluent from the Ekati Mine camp (500–1000 people) on the aquatic environment of Kodiak Lake. The study documents changes in water quality, sediment quality, primary and secondary producers, and fish populations resulting from sewage discharge that began in April 1997, with comparisons to pre-discharge baseline data from 1993–1996.
Proposal for a comprehensive kimberlite toxicity study for BHP Diamonds Inc. under Water Licence N7L2-1616, designed to assess acute and chronic effects of kimberlite solutions from diamond processing on aquatic organisms and fish health through laboratory bioassays, toxicity identification evaluations, and sub-lethal exposure experiments.
This landmark Supreme Court of Canada decision addresses the nature and scope of aboriginal title and rights, establishing that aboriginal title is a distinct, constitutionally protected right to exclusive use and occupation of land, and setting out the legal test for proving such title based on historical occupation at the time of Crown sovereignty.
BHP Minerals Canada Ltd. submitted a Fish Habitat Compensation Program plan for the Panda Lake Diversion Channel, developed by Dillon Consulting Limited to address harmful alteration of fish habitat from mining operations. The plan details fish habitat creation, enhancement, monitoring and maintenance designs for a 3,400-meter diversion channel constructed between Panda and Kodiak Lakes to restore fish connectivity and compensate for 930 meters of impacted stream habitat in the Koala Watershed.
This is a fish habitat compensation plan for the Panda Lake Diversion Channel developed by BHP Minerals Canada Ltd. and Dillon Consulting to address impacts of the NWT Diamonds Project on stream fish habitat. The plan details physical and hydrological characteristics of the constructed diversion channel, proposed habitat creation and enhancement features, monitoring protocols, and a phased implementation strategy to achieve no net loss of fish habitat as required by the federal Fisheries Act.
BHP Diamonds' December 1997 newsletter announces the official naming of the NWT Diamonds Project as the Ekati Diamond Mine, provides construction progress updates showing the project 70% complete with planned Q4 1998 production start, and reports a milestone of one million hours worked without a lost-time accident during construction.
BHP Wildlife Monitoring Program binder for the Ekati Diamond Mine (1998-2001) — BHP Diamonds Inc. File 4.3.6.2. Includes Wildlife Compact Disk distribution (February 2001), planning process for the WMP (January 1998), construction-phase records for the Panda Lake diversion channel (computer files, hand-written notes, photographs, undeveloped film and video of erosion at Grizzly Lake), Federal EIS submission history, and bird/caribou monitoring session planning. Distribution: Tamara Hamilton (INAC), Anne Wilson (Environment Canada), Kevin McCormick (Canadian Wildlife Service), Kathryn Emmett (GNWT RWED).