Aquatic Effects Monitoring Program (AEMP) Fish Response Plan Version 3.0, Comments, Ekati Diamond Mine (Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency, July 2022)
The Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency provides comments on Arctic Canadian Diamond Company's Response Plan for Fish Version 3.0, addressing concerns about mercury and selenium persistence in fish-bearing lakes, the exceedance of mercury action levels in Kodiak Lake, and the need to incorporate information about which fish organs are consumed by Indigenous communities into contaminant benchmarks.
- Date
- Document type
- Letter
- Parties
- Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency, Wek'eezhii Land and Water Board, Arctic Canadian Diamond Company, Tłı̨cho Government, Yellowknives Dene First Nation, Łutsel K'e Dene First Nation, North Slave Metis Alliance, Kitikmeot Inuit Association, Government of the Northwest Territories, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada
- Locations
- Ekati, Kodiak Lake, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
- Parameters
- fish tissue mercury concentration, fish tissue selenium concentration, metals in fish, human consumption screening values, fish internal organs, baseline levels, effluent discharge, lake trout, burbot, whitefish, fish contaminants
- Pages
- 2
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