Final Guidelines for the Preparation of an Environmental Impact Statement, NWT Diamonds Project (Federal Environmental Assessment Review Panel, May 1995)
Final guidelines issued by a federal environmental assessment panel in May 1995 for BHP Diamonds Inc. and the Blackwater Group to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Northwest Territories Diamonds Project (Ekati). The document establishes comprehensive requirements for assessing the project's effects on physical, biological, and socio-economic environments, including consultation with aboriginal peoples, consideration of traditional knowledge, mitigation measures, and long-term monitoring.
- Date
- Document type
- Report
- Parties
- BHP Diamonds Inc., Blackwater Group, Panel, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Federal government, Territorial government, Aboriginal organizations, Northwest Territories communities
- Locations
- Northwest Territories, Lac de Gras claims block, Arctic, Subarctic regions
- Parameters
- water quality, sediment quality, air quality, permafrost, hydrology, fish habitat, caribou, grizzly bear, fur-bearing animals, vegetation, wetlands, tailings management, waste rock disposal, mine closure, reclamation, cumulative effects, socio-economic effects, employment, traditional knowledge, contaminant loading, ecosystem integrity, biological diversity
- Pages
- 22
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