Brief and Speaking Notes to the CEAA BHP Diamond Mine Panel (NWT Enviro Watch, February 1996)

Brief and presentation speaking notes from NWT Enviro Watch (Peter Atamanenko, Yellowknife, ~60 members) to Letha MacLachlan, Chair, CEAA BHP Diamond Mine Panel, February 23 1996. Critiques DIAND treaty-rights enforcement and First Nations consultation, regional and cumulative impacts of mining infrastructure including hydro projects, mineral-taxation policy and seven-year payback delay for ten-year-life mines, and federal precedent on environmental review citing Labrador / Quebec low-level military training flight hearings.