Jay Project Technical Sessions, Mackenzie Valley Review Board (MVEIRB, April 2015)
Technical sessions held April 20-24, 2015 for the Jay Project environmental assessment, featuring IEMA, Dominion Diamond, and regulatory participants discussing project alternatives, wildlife impacts, water quality modeling, fish habitat, air quality, and closure planning. The document includes detailed homework assignments, undertakings, and commitments from each day, followed by Information Request responses addressing environmental concerns related to mining alternatives, dike design, waste rock storage, water quality predictions, fish contaminants, and zooplankton dynamics.
- Date
- 2015-04-20
- Document type
- meeting-minutes
- Parties
- Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency (IEMA), Dominion Diamond Ekati Corporation (DDEC), Government of Northwest Territories - Environment and Natural Resources (GNWT-ENR), Environment Canada (EC), Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board, Wek'èezhìi Land and Water Board (WLWB), Kitikmeot Inuit Association (KIA), Diavik Diamond Mines Inc., BHP Billiton Diamonds Inc.
- Locations
- Ekati Diamond Mine, Jay Project, Northwest Territories, Lac de Gras, Lac du Sauvage, Lac du Sauvage-Lac de Gras Narrows, Misery pit, Lynx pit, Diavik Mine, Koala watershed, King-Cujo watershed, Leslie Lake, Moose Lake, Nema Lake, Cujo Lake, Desteffany Lake, Snap Lake, Dewey's Fault
- Parameters
- water quality, caribou, wildlife, fish and fish habitat, birds, short-eared owl, rusty blackbird, dike design, waste rock storage area, traffic management, wildlife management, air quality monitoring, dust, light pollution, noise, ammonia, nitrate, hydrology, hydrogeology, seepage, acid rock drainage (ARD), total dissolved solids (TDS), chlorophyll a, phytoplankton, zooplankton, cladocerans, Daphnia, fish tissue chemistry, mercury, contaminants, riparian habitat, vegetation, closure and reclamation, back-flooding, pit lake, sediment, turbidity, cumulative effects, baseline conditions, reference conditions, water level changes, spawning habitat, northern participation rate, community wellness, health indicators
- Pages
- 251
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