Final Submission to the BHP Diamond Mine Environmental Assessment Panel, Public Hearings Phase II (NWT Federation of Labour, February 1996)
The Northwest Territories Federation of Labour submits a comprehensive brief to the BHP Diamond Mine Environmental Assessment Panel detailing labor, employment, occupational health and safety, and social impact concerns, recommending stringent regulatory requirements, northern hiring guarantees, workplace protections, and independent monitoring mechanisms as conditions for project approval.
- Date
- Document type
- Regulatory Filing
- Parties
- Northwest Territories Federation of Labour, BHP (Broken Hill Proprietary), Environmental Assessment Panel, Government of Canada, Government of Northwest Territories, Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Department of Justice, Yellowknives Dene Band, Dene Nation, Status of Women Council, Alberta and NWT Building Trades Council
- Locations
- Northwest Territories, Ekati Diamond Mine, Lac de Gras, Yellowknife, Hay River, Edmonton, Fairbanks, Alaska, Fort McMurray, Alberta, Newfoundland, Saskatchewan, Ontario, New Brunswick, South Africa, Australia, Manitoba, Dogrib Treaty 11 lands, Cambridge Bay, Spence Bay
- Parameters
- occupational health and safety, workers compensation, northern employment and training, aboriginal hiring and training, wage standards, workplace legislation, labor standards, human rights, security procedures, body searches, social impacts, cost of living, point of hire, accident rates, mine safety, workplace enforcement, community benefits agreements
- Pages
- 41
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