Northern Perspectives, Fall/Winter 1996, Volume 24 (CARC, Fall/Winter 1996)
This Northern Perspectives journal issue (Fall/Winter 1996) publishes CARC's critical analysis of the BHP diamond mine environmental assessment panel process and recommendations, including detailed letters to federal ministers outlining procedural deficiencies and specific conditions for project approval. The document critiques the assessment as fundamentally flawed—not comprehensive, rigorous, or fair—and identifies systemic failures in environmental review processes in the North.
- Date
- 1996-10-01
- Document type
- report
- Parties
- Canadian Arctic Resources Committee (CARC), BHP Diamonds Inc., Dia Met Minerals Ltd., Government of Canada, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (DIAND), Government of Northwest Territories, Northern Environmental Coalition, Canadian Nature Federation, Ecology North, World Wildlife Fund Canada, Yellowknives Dene First Nation, Dene Nation, Department of Environment, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Department of Renewable Resources (GNWT), Human Resources Development Canada, Kennecott Canada, DeBeers
- Locations
- Ekati Diamond Mine, Lac de Gras, Slave Geological Province, Northwest Territories, Yellowknife, Kugluktuk (Coppermine), Papua New Guinea, Ok Tedi, Lutsel K'e, Dettah, Voisey's Bay, Labrador, Beaufort Sea, Ottawa, Slave Geological Province, Bathurst caribou herd, Coppermine River, Hood River, Back River, Burnside River
- Parameters
- environmental assessment, diamond mining, cumulative effects, environmental monitoring, water quality, traditional knowledge, caribou, wildlife impacts, closure and reclamation, water licence, impact benefit agreements, land claims, sustainable development, protected areas, resource harvesting, socio-economic effects, baseline study, environmental agreement, diamond marketing
- Pages
- 12
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