Fact Sheets, Recommendations & Hearing Transcript Submitted to Federal EARP Panel Reviewing BHP Diamonds Project (YKDFN, February 1996)
This document comprises ten fact sheets and recommendations from Yellowknives Dene First Nation to the federal EARP Panel reviewing the BHP Diamonds Project, submitted in February 1996. The submission details the First Nation's concerns regarding inadequate community consultation, limited economic benefits despite significant social and environmental impacts, insufficient baseline data, and demands for aboriginal control over environmental monitoring, land rights recognition, and negotiated development impact-benefit agreements before project approval.
- Date
- Document type
- Letter
- Parties
- Yellowknives Dene First Nation, BHP, EARP Panel, Rescan, Deton'cho, Government of Canada, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, City of Yellowknife
- Locations
- Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Dettah, Ndilo, Lutsel K'e, Denínu Kué, Lac de Gras, Great Slave Lake, Coppermine River, Yellowknife River, Bathurst caribou calving grounds, Mackay Lake, Yellowknife Bay, Ingraham Trail, Fort Resolution, Fort Rae, Fort Smith, Rocher River, Pine Point, Wool Bay
- Parameters
- water quality, caribou migration, environmental assessment, traditional knowledge, social impacts, economic benefits, employment, reclamation, waste management, wildlife monitoring, fish populations, eskers, permafrost, groundwater, fuel oil, arsenic, cyanide, winter roads, archaeological sites
- Pages
- 21
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