NWT Diamonds Project Environmental Assessment Review Submission (Lutsel K'e First Nation, January to February 1996)
This comprehensive submission by the Lutsel K'e First Nation to the NWT Diamonds Project Environmental Assessment Review Panel opposes BHP/Diamet's proposed mine development in the Akaitcho Territory, citing inadequate consultation, insufficient traditional knowledge integration, negative past experience with development impacts (Nanacho Lake and Stark Lake), and major unresolved environmental, social, and aboriginal rights concerns regarding caribou migration, water quality, wildlife habitat, and cultural survival. The submission includes five separate technical session presentations addressing wildlife, socio-economic impacts, environmental management plans, water quality, and traditional knowledge, along with a covering letter and general opposition statement, all received in February 1996.
- Date
- Document type
- Regulatory Filing
- Parties
- Lutsel K'e First Nation, BHP/Diamet, NWT Diamonds Project Environmental Assessment Review Panel, Northern Environmental Coalition, Dogrib Treaty 11 Council, Status of Women Council of the NWT, Government of Canada, NWT Power Corporation, Aurora College
- Locations
- Lutsel K'e, Akaitcho Territory, Lac de Gras, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Long Lake, Echo Bay, Misery pit, Nanacho Lake, Stark Lake, Fort Resolution, Fort Reliance, Bathurst caribou herd range, Siberia
- Parameters
- water quality, caribou abundance and migration, fish and aquatic life, wildlife habitat, air quality, dust and contaminant deposition, tailings management, reclamation and revegetation, traditional land use, cumulative environmental effects, social impacts, mental health, addictions, employment and economic development, traditional knowledge, hydrological impacts, esker destruction, denning sites, grizzly bears, wolves, birds, furbearers, chemical disposal, fuel storage and spill prevention, explosives
- Pages
- 41