NWT Diamonds Project, Report of the Environmental Assessment Panel (Environmental Assessment Panel, June 1996)
This is the June 1996 Report of the Environmental Assessment Panel reviewing BHP Diamonds Inc. and the Blackwater Group's proposed NWT Diamonds Project, a 25-year diamond mining operation near Lac de Gras in the Northwest Territories involving open-pit and underground mining of five kimberlite pipes. The Panel recommends approval of the Project subject to numerous conditions addressing environmental management, Aboriginal consultation, land claims, traditional knowledge integration, monitoring programs, and socio-economic considerations.
- Date
- 1996-06-01
- Document type
- report
- Parties
- BHP Diamonds Inc., Blackwater Group, Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, Minister of the Environment, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Environment Canada, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Government of the Northwest Territories, Dogrib Treaty 11 Council, Yellowknives Dene First Nation, Łutselk'e First Nation, Métis Nation of the Northwest Territories, Kitikmeot Inuit Association, Dene Nation, Echo Bay Mines Ltd., Northern Environmental Coalition, Mining Association of Canada
- Locations
- Northwest Territories, Lac de Gras, Yellowknife, Wha Ti, Rae Lakes, Rae-Edzo, Snare Lake, Łutselk'e, Kugluktuk, Ndìlo, Dettah, Echo Bay winter road, Koala watershed, Long Lake, Panda pit, Koala pit, Fox pit, Leslie pit, Misery pit, Great Slave Lake, Great Bear Lake, Point Lake, Contwoyto Lake, Nunavut
- Parameters
- water quality, water quantity, tailings management, air quality, waste rock management, closure and reclamation, caribou abundance and migration, grizzly bear populations, fish habitat, vegetation, wildlife, bird populations, acid generation from waste rock, kimberlite toxicity, nitrogen contamination, diamond recovery, socio-economic effects, employment, traditional knowledge, land claims, Aboriginal rights, cumulative effects, environmental monitoring, archaeological sites
- Pages
- 93
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