Issues for the Consideration of the Environmental Assessment and Review Panel, BHP NWT Diamonds Project Proposal (Metis Nation NWT, April 1995)
The Métis Nation - Northwest Territories submits detailed comments on the Draft Guidelines for the BHP Diamonds Project Environmental Impact Statement, highlighting the proponent's failure to recognize Métis aboriginal rights, land claims, and consultation obligations in the North Slave Region, and requesting specific requirements for impact assessment methodologies, socio-economic baseline data, and mitigation measures across construction, operations, and abandonment phases.
- Date
- 1995-04-01
- Document type
- regulatory-filing
- Parties
- Métis Nation - Northwest Territories, BHP (Broken Hill Proprietary), Environmental Assessment and Review Panel, FEARO (Federal Environmental Assessment Review Office), Government of Canada, Dogrib Nation, Dene, Treaty 8
- Locations
- Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, North Slave Region, Coppermine, Western NWT, Slave Geological Province, Bathurst Herd calving grounds, Dettah
- Parameters
- land claims and aboriginal rights, caribou migration and impacts, tailings containment and disposal, water quality and flood risk, air pollution and SO2 effects on vegetation, thermal inversions and pit environment, noise pollution, fish and wildlife populations, climate change and global warming, worker rotation and social impacts, employment and training opportunities, contracting and procurement, community demographic changes, renewable resource impacts
- Pages
- 14
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