"If We Wait and See, It Will Be Too Late": Critique of Approach to Environmental Management by Voisey's Bay Nickel Company (Innu Nation, October 1998)
This is a formal submission by Innu Nation to an environmental assessment panel hearing on the proposed Voisey's Bay Nickel Mine, critiquing the adequacy of environmental impact prediction, assessment of alternatives, and the sufficiency of relying on monitoring to address serious uncertainties about mining impacts on traditional Innu lands and harvesting rights.
- Date
- 1998
- Document type
- Regulatory Filing
- Parties
- Innu Nation, Voisey's Bay Nickel Company, Environmental Assessment Panel, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Government of Canada, Labrador Inuit Association, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canadian Wildlife Service
- Locations
- Voisey's Bay, Labrador, Ntesinan, Headwater Pond, North Tailings Basin, Reid Brook, George River, Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Ontario, Northwest Territories
- Parameters
- tailings disposal, waste rock disposal, acid-generating waste (PAG), concentrate transportation and storage, power supply, water quality, fish habitat, caribou abundance, marine mammals, air quality, environmental monitoring, reclamation and closure costs, environmental impact assessment, alternative site selection
- Pages
- 108
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