Federal Environmental Assessment Panel Public Hearing, Northwest Territories Diamonds Project, Dettah, Northwest Territories (BHP Billiton, February 1996)
Federal Environmental Assessment Panel public hearing in Dettah on the proposed BHP Diamonds Inc. Northwest Territories Diamonds Project, featuring presentations from BHP outlining the diamond mine development near Lac de Gras, and testimony from Yellowknives Dene Band and community members expressing concerns about environmental impacts, land rights, and historical lessons from previous mining operations like Pine Point.
- Date
- Document type
- Report
- Parties
- Federal Environmental Assessment Panel, BHP Diamonds Inc., Blackwater Group, Yellowknives Dene Band, Deninu K'e First Nation, Fort Resolution community, Lutsel K'e community, Dogrib people, Inuit, Treaty 8, Treaty 11
- Locations
- Dettah, Northwest Territories, Lac de Gras, Yellowknife, Coppermine River, Echo Bay, Lupin Gold Mine, Snare Lake, Great Slave Lake, Mackay Lake, Pine Point, Fort Resolution, Lutsel K'e, Ndilo, Drybone Bay, Wool Bay, Narrow Islands, Barren Lands, Slave Geological Province
- Parameters
- diamond mining, kimberlite pipes, open pit mining, underground mining, water quality, fish and aquatic life, caribou abundance and migration, wildlife habitat, grizzly bears, migratory birds, tailings management, environmental impact assessment, reclamation, permafrost, employment and socio-economic impacts, traditional land use, burial and historic sites, air quality, tailings disposal
- Pages
- 79
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