NWT Water Board Public Hearing, BHP Diamonds Type A Water Licence N7L2-1616 Application (BHP Billiton, September 1996)
Northwest Territories Water Board public hearing on September 9-10, 1996 in Yellowknife regarding BHP Diamonds Inc.'s application for a Type "A" Water Licence (N7L2-1616) for the NWT Diamonds Project at Lac de Gras. Presentations covered BHP's corporate background, project overview, hydrology, water quality, aquatic biology, and tailings management plans, with testimony from government agencies, Indigenous representatives, and environmental organizations.
- Date
- Document type
- Meeting Minutes
- Parties
- Northwest Territories Water Board, BHP Diamonds Inc., Yellowknives Dene First Nation, Lutsel k'e Dene Band, Dogrib Treaty #11 Council, Northern Environmental Coalition, Kitikmeot Inuit Association, Environment Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Rescan, EBA Engineering
- Locations
- Lac de Gras, Northwest Territories, Yellowknife, Koala watershed, Misery watershed, Coppermine River Basin, Long Lake, Panda Lake, Koala Lake, Leslie Lake, Fox Lake, Misery Lake, Slipper Lake, Moose Lake, Little Lake, Grizzly Lake, Airstrip Lake, Nema Lake, Kodiak Lake, Lupin Gold Mine, Snare Lake, Echo Bay Winter Road, Vancouver Island, Great Slave Lake, Great Bear Lake, Coronation Gulf, Indin River, Thomokied River, Fort Norman, Fort Resolution, Fort Smith, Fort Simpson, Kugluktuk, Rankin Inlet, Bathurst Inlet, Coppermine
- Parameters
- water quality, water quantity, hydrology, meteorology, aquatic biology, fish populations, lake trout, arctic grayling, aluminum, nickel, sulphate, pH, conductivity, sediment loading, tailings management, waste rock drainage, pit dewatering, permafrost, groundwater flow, acid-generating material, discharge criteria, water balance, freshhet flows
- Pages
- 331
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