Notes to the BHP Environmental Review Public Hearings (Violet Camsell-Blondin, February 1996)
Notes from a Dogrib community representative's statement at a public hearing on BHP's diamond mine environmental review, addressing concerns about impacts on traditional land use, inadequate environmental studies, Dogrib sovereignty and control over land and monitoring, and the need for completed land claims and self-government negotiations before mining development.
- Date
- 1996
- Document type
- Presentation
- Parties
- Dogrib, BHP, Telette Consent, Elerin Reserve Coordinator, DRRC, Panel
- Locations
- Dogrib territory, Whati, Rae Lakes, Lac de Gras, Yellowknife, Indin Lake, Mopwi
- Parameters
- caribou, grizzly bears, water quality, wildlife, environmental impacts, socio-economic impacts, traditional ecological knowledge, cumulative effects
- Pages
- 2
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