Comments on 2022 3-Year Seepage Report, Ekati Diamond Mine (Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency, December 2023)
The Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency provides detailed comments on Arctic Canadian Diamond Company Ltd.'s 3-year Seepage Report, addressing concerns about receiving environment definitions, adaptive management response triggers, geochemical characterization, seeps of potential concern identification, reference seep monitoring, and data interpretation issues related to the Ekati Diamond Mine operations.
- Date
- 2023-12-11
- Document type
- letter
- Parties
- Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency, Mason Mantla, Wek'eezhii Land and Water Board, Arctic Canadian Diamond Company Ltd., 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 Diamond Mine, Northwest Territories, Yellowknife, Fox WRSA, Pigeon WRSA, Misery WRSA, Sable WRSA, Point Lake, Cujo Lake, Bearclaw Lake, LLCF
- Parameters
- seepage water quality, effluent quality criteria, total suspended solids, total aluminum, total copper, total iron, acid-generating potential, neutralization potential, sulphate concentration, chloride, erosion control, waste rock storage areas, geochemical characterization, acid base accounting, precipitation, seepage monitoring, receiving environment
- Pages
- 7
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