Issues for the Consideration of the Environmental Assessment and Review Panel (Metis Nation - Northwest Territories, April 1995)
The Métis Nation - Northwest Territories presents a formal submission to the Environmental Assessment and Review Panel regarding the BHP NWT Diamonds Project, asserting that the BHP Project Description Report fails to recognize Métis aboriginal rights and land claims in the North Slave Region, and requesting that the EIS guidelines mandate meaningful consultation, negotiation, and benefit agreements with the Métis comparable to those offered to the Dogrib Nation.
- Date
- 1995
- Document type
- regulatory-filing
- Parties
- Métis Nation - Northwest Territories, BHP, Environmental Assessment and Review Panel, Government of Canada, Dogrib Nation, Dene
- Locations
- Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, North Slave Region, Coppermine, Slave Geological Province, Bathurst Herd calving grounds, Boston gold prospect, Ulu gold prospect, Dettah
- Parameters
- land claims, aboriginal rights, caribou migration, tailings containment, water quality, air pollution, noise pollution, wildlife habitat, fish populations, climate change, thermal inversions, soil contamination, socio-economic impacts, employment and training, demographic change
- Pages
- 14
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