Public Hearing Technical Session on Environmental Management Plans, Northwest Territories Diamonds Project (Federal Environmental Assessment Panel, February 1996)
This is a transcript of the Federal Environmental Assessment Panel's public hearing technical session on February 16, 1996, reviewing BHP Diamonds Inc.'s Northwest Territories Diamonds Project environmental management plans. BHP presented comprehensive environmental management strategies covering air quality, water, waste, tailings, traffic, wildlife, aquatic life, reclamation, and closure, along with monitoring and adaptive management approaches designed to minimize environmental impacts of the proposed diamond mine near Lac de Gras.
- Date
- Document type
- Report
- Parties
- Federal Environmental Assessment Panel, BHP Diamonds Inc., Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Environment Canada, Northern Environmental Coalition, Government of the Northwest Territories, Lutsel K'e Dene Band Council, World Wildlife Fund, Dene Nation, NWT Chamber of Mines, Echo Bay Mines, ResCan, EBA Engineering, Alaska Biological Research
- Locations
- Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Lac de Gras, Northwest Territories, Long Lake, Leslie Lake, Misery pit, Koala, Echo Bay, Dettah, Lupin, Raglan, Ungava Peninsula, Arctic Quebec, Garrow Lake, Polaris mine, Kubaka Mine, Magadan region, Russia, Hay River, Fox mine, Fairbanks, Alaska, Bowling Green Building, Panda diversion channel, Edmonton
- Parameters
- environmental management plans, air quality, fugitive dust, water quality, water quantity, tailings management, waste rock, hazardous substances, spill contingency plans, emergency response, ammonium nitrate storage, traffic management, wildlife habitat, caribou, grizzly bears, aquatic life, vegetation, reclamation, decommissioning, closure costs, permafrost, thermal analysis, frozen core dams, tailings pipeline, effluent discharge criteria, environmental monitoring, adaptive management, climate change impacts, revegetation, fuel consumption, power generation, hydroelectric power
- Pages
- 128
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