Environment Canada Submissions to the Federal Environmental Assessment Panel, BHP NWT Diamonds Project Public Hearings (Environment Canada, February 1996)

Submission and speaking notes from Environment Canada (Scott McDonald, Chief of Monitoring and Operations Division; Tim Coleman, Manager Northern Strategies) to the BHP NWT Diamonds Project Environmental Assessment Panel, February 1996 water technical session. Discusses federal laws of general application, water-quality monitoring (Doug Halliwell), hydrology (Jesse Jasper), groundwater (Gary Grove, NHRI), EP effluent (Merke Stephanski), freshwater toxics (Jake Klaaverkamp, DFO Freshwater Institute), spill prevention and response contingency plans, Long Lake tailings disposal reclamation, and bird-impact quantification recommendations.