Opposition Submission on Proposed BHP Diamond Mine, Lac de Gras (Alex Hall, Canoe Arctic Inc., April 1995)
A letter from Alex Hall of Canoe Arctic Inc. to the BHP Diamond Mine Environmental Assessment Panel expressing strong opposition to the proposed diamond mine at Lac de Gras, arguing that it will inevitably trigger extensive industrial development and destruction of the Barren Lands, Canada's last great wilderness area.
- Date
- Document type
- Letter
- Parties
- Canoe Arctic Inc., Alex Hall, BHP Diamond Mine Environmental Assessment Panel, Denise Burlingame
- Locations
- Barren Lands, Northwest Territories, Lac de Gras, Yellowknife, Great Slave Lake, Contwoyto Lake, Arctic Ocean, Hudson Bay, Rankin Inlet, Churchill, Fort Smith, Canada
- Parameters
- caribou abundance, wilderness degradation, mining development, road construction, muskox populations, wolf populations, moose populations, grizzly bears
- Pages
- 4
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