Public Hearing Technical Session, Traditional Knowledge, Yellowknife, NWT (Federal Environmental Assessment Panel, February 1996)
Federal Environmental Assessment Panel public hearing technical session on traditional knowledge for the BHP Diamonds Inc. Northwest Territories Diamonds Project (Ekati), held in Yellowknife on February 13, 1996. BHP presented its approach to incorporating traditional knowledge into the project through a two-phase study, emphasizing partnership and involvement of aboriginal groups, while panel members and government representatives questioned the adequacy of methodology, application to specific environmental concerns like caribou, and protection of intellectual property rights.
- Date
- 1996-02-13
- Document type
- meeting-minutes
- Parties
- Federal Environmental Assessment Panel, Letha MacLachlan, Cindy Kenny-Gilday, Walter Kupsch, Jessie Sloan, BHP Diamonds Inc., Karen Azinger, David Boyd, Chris Hanks, Marc Stevenson, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, David Livingstone, Fred McFarlane, Yellowknives Dene First Nation, Fred Sangris, Lutsel K'e Dene Council, Louie Abel, Noel Drybone, Government of the Northwest Territories, Marius Tungalik, Joe Handley, Tom Andrews, Cheryl Fennell, Vicki Robillard, Chuck Arnold, Dene Nation, Chief Bill Erasmus, Francois Paulette, John Donihee
- Locations
- Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Lac de Gras, Snare Lake, Wha Ti, Coppermine, Navajo Nation, New Mexico, Great Bear Lake, Bathurst caribou herd area
- Parameters
- traditional knowledge, environmental impact assessment, caribou, fishing policy, archaeological sites, water quality, wildlife, environmental monitoring, community socio-economic impacts, cultural integrity, intellectual property rights, hunting and trapping, land claims, environmental baseline work
- Pages
- 65
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