Environmental Impact Report 2025, Comments, Ekati Diamond Mine (Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency, May 2026)
The Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency provides final review comments on Burgundy Diamond Mines' 2025 Environmental Impact Report for the Ekati Diamond Mine, finding it unsatisfactory and identifying significant gaps in reporting of environmental monitoring results from 2022-2024, particularly regarding air quality, water quality, fish health, and caribou impacts.
- Date
- 2026
- Document type
- letter
- Parties
- Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency, Nathalie Oldfield, Environment and Climate Change, Government of the Northwest Territories, Burgundy Diamond Mines, Tłıçhọ, Lutsel K'e Dene First Nation, Yellowknives Dene First Nation, North Slave Métis Alliance
- Locations
- Ekati Diamond Mine, Northwest Territories, Yellowknife, Lac de Gras, Koala watershed, Leslie Lake, Moose Lake, Cujo Lake, Kodiak Lake, King Pond, Point Lake, Fox Pit, Sable, Misery, Lac du Sauvage, Falcon Lake, Bathurst caribou herd, Beverly/Ahiak herd
- Parameters
- greenhouse gas emissions, acid deposition, air quality, stack testing, water quality, aquatic life, sediment quality, cadmium, selenium, mercury, fish health, fish fecundity, metal concentrations, water discharge, water licence compliance, unauthorized discharges, spills, caribou movement, caribou avoidance, caribou migration routes, caribou crossings, road barriers, carnivore habitat, telemetry, dust control, critical loads, benthic organisms
- Pages
- 10
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