Conformity Report, NWT Diamonds Project Environmental Impact Statement (GNWT, October 1995)
The Government of the Northwest Territories' conformity review of the BHP NWT Diamonds Project Environmental Impact Statement, identifying major deficiencies in traditional knowledge integration, environmental management plans, spatial boundaries, wildlife assessment, socio-economic impacts, and monitoring programs, while concluding that the EIS can be brought into compliance relatively quickly through additional analysis and field work results.
- Date
- 1995-10-23
- Document type
- regulatory-filing
- Parties
- Government of the Northwest Territories, BHP Diamond Mine Panel, BHP, Blackwater Group, Department of Renewable Resources, Department of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, Department of Economic Development and Tourism, Department of Safety and Public Services, Department of Education, Culture and Employment, Department of Health and Social Services, Department of Transportation, Department of Justice, Dogrib Treaty 11 Council, Dene Cultural Institute
- Locations
- Northwest Territories, Yellowknife, Ekati Diamond Mine, NWT, Misery Lake, Lac de Gras, Paul Lake, Echo Bay Winter Road, Coppermine River Drainage Basin, Hay River, NWT Highways Number 1 and 3, Panda Pit, Koala Pit, Leslie Pit, Fox Pit, Misery Pit, Airstrip Lake, N'dilo, Dettah, New Mexico, British Columbia, Navajo Reservation, Canada
- Parameters
- traditional knowledge, environmental impact assessment, water quality, wildlife management, caribou, wolves, wolverines, grizzly bears, raptors, birds, eskers, tailings management, waste rock disposal, alkaline drainage, permafrost, hydrological conditions, vegetation mapping, ecosystem mapping, archaeological surveys, soil surveys, air quality, particulate levels, waste oil disposal, freeze clarification, ice core dams, traffic management, emergency response, spill contingency, closure and reclamation, cumulative effects, socio-economic impacts, land monitoring, occupational health and safety, mine decommissioning, post-closure monitoring
- Pages
- 64
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