Presentation on the NWT Diamonds Project, General Session, BHP Diamond Mine Environmental Assessment Panel (GNWT, February 1996)
The Government of the Northwest Territories presents its position on the BHP NWT Diamonds Project to the Environmental Assessment Panel, supporting sustainable resource development while emphasizing the need for improved mitigation measures, comprehensive monitoring programs, and equitable distribution of economic and employment benefits to northerners.
- Date
- 1996-02-01
- Document type
- presentation
- Parties
- Government of the Northwest Territories, BHP Diamond Mine Environmental Assessment Panel, BHP, Aboriginal groups, Government of Canada, Minister of the Environment, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Premier of the Northwest Territories
- Locations
- Northwest Territories, Yellowknife, Slave Geological Province, West Kitikmeot/Slave Study area
- Parameters
- employment opportunities, economic benefits, royalties, taxation, traditional harvesting activities, social effects, substance abuse, family violence, caribou, grizzly bears, water quality, tailings management, ice core dams, cumulative effects, environmental monitoring, traditional knowledge
- Pages
- 8
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