NWT Diamonds Project Environmental Impact Statement Summary (BHP Billiton, 1995)
This Environmental Impact Statement Summary describes the NWT Diamonds Project, a joint venture between BHP Diamonds Inc. and the Blackwater Group to develop Canada's first diamond mine at Lac de Gras in the Northwest Territories. The document outlines the project description, environmental setting, community consultations, mining operations including five kimberlite pipes, tailings management, and mitigation measures addressing concerns from Aboriginal communities regarding caribou migration, water quality, grizzly bears, and traditional land use.
- Date
- 1995
- Document type
- regulatory-filing
- Parties
- BHP Diamonds Inc., BHP Minerals, Dia Met Minerals Limited, Blackwater Group, Charles Fipke, Dr. Stewart Blusson, Federal Environmental Assessment Review Panel, Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency, Government of Canada, Government of Northwest Territories, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Dogrib Treaty 11 Nation, Yellowknives Dene Band, Treaty 8 bands, Chipewyan Dene, Inuit communities, Metis, Aboriginal peoples of Northwest Territories
- Locations
- Lac de Gras, Northwest Territories, Point Lake, Coppermine, Yellowknife, Hay River, Dettah, N'dilo, Lutsel K'e, Wha Ti, Snare Lake, Rae Lakes, Rae-Edzo, Umingmaktok, Cambridge Bay, Kelowna, British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Coppermine River, Great Slave Lake, Great Bear Lake, Bathurst Inlet, Koala Lake, Panda Lake, Fox Lake, Leslie Lake, Misery Lake, Long Lake, Kodiak Lake, Paul Lake, Grizzly Lake, Hump Lake, Nema Lake, Nero Lake, Moose Lake, Larry Lake, Little Lake, Airstrip Lake, Contwoyto Lake, Takijuq Lake, Echo Bay, Antwerp, Belgium, Navajo Nation, United States, Low Arctic Ecoclimatic region
- Parameters
- water quality, caribou migration, Bathurst caribou herd, grizzly bears, fish populations, lake trout, arctic grayling, vegetation, permafrost, tailings management, ore processing, diamond recovery, waste rock, environmental baseline, air quality, water discharge standards, habitat loss, reclamation, closure and decommissioning, wildlife monitoring, precipitation, temperature, occupational health and safety
- Pages
- 62
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