Fish Habitat Management Plan, EIS Additional Information Response (BHP Billiton, December 1995)
BHP Diamonds Inc. responds to a Panel request regarding fish habitat management and compensation for the Ekati project by detailing negotiations with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans on habitat loss from lake dewatering and tailings/waste rock disposal, including multiple reports quantifying spawning habitat in affected lakes and compensation approaches based on reproductive habitat and whole lake replacement values.
- Date
- 1995
- Document type
- Regulatory Filing
- Parties
- BHP Diamonds Inc., Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Rescan Environmental Services Limited, Panel Office
- Locations
- Ekati Diamond Mine, Panda Lake, Koala Lake, Leslie Lake, Fox 1 Lake, Misery Lake, Long Lake, Airstrip Lake, Airstrip Esker, Koala watershed, Lac de Gras watershed, Arctic, Northwest Territories, Yellowknife, Canada
- Parameters
- fish habitat compensation, No Net Loss principle, lake trout productivity, spawning habitat, Arctic grayling habitat, round whitefish habitat, burbot habitat, juvenile rearing habitat, fish population dynamics, water dewatering, tailings deposition, waste rock disposal, pit refilling, nutrient levels
- Pages
- 3
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