NWT Diamonds Project, Report of the Environmental Assessment Panel (Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, June 1996)
The Federal Environmental Assessment Panel's June 1996 report on BHP Diamonds Inc. and the Blackwater Group's proposed NWT Diamonds Project (Ekati Diamond Mine) evaluates the environmental and socio-economic effects of five diamond-bearing kimberlite pipes near Lac de Gras in the Northwest Territories, recommending project approval subject to extensive conditions addressing baseline information adequacy, land claims, traditional knowledge integration, environmental management, monitoring, and socio-economic mitigation.
- Date
- 1996-06-01
- Document type
- report
- Parties
- BHP Diamonds Inc., Blackwater Group, Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Department of the Environment, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Government of the Northwest Territories, Dogrib Treaty 11 Council, Yellowknives Dene First Nation, Łutselk'e First Nation, Kitikmeot Inuit Association, Métis Nation of the Northwest Territories, Dene Nation
- Locations
- Northwest Territories, Lac de Gras, Yellowknife, Ekati Diamond Mine, Panda pit, Koala pit, Misery pit, Fox pit, Leslie pit, Long Lake, Echo Bay, Wha Ti, Rae Lakes, Rae-Edzo, Snare Lake, Łutselk'e, Kugluktuk, Ndìlo, Dettah, Koala watershed, Bathurst caribou herd, Nunavut
- Parameters
- water quality, water quantity, air quality, fish habitat, caribou abundance and migration, grizzly bear populations, vegetation, wildlife, tailings management, waste rock management, closure and reclamation, environmental monitoring, socio-economic effects, traditional knowledge, land claims, Aboriginal rights, employment, sustainable development, acid generation, kimberlite toxicity
- Pages
- 98
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