Public Hearing Transcript, General Session, Federal Environmental Assessment Panel Review of the BHP Diamonds NWT Diamonds Project, Yellowknife (Federal Environmental Assessment Panel, February 1996)
Federal Environmental Assessment Panel public hearing on the proposed BHP Diamonds Northwest Territories Diamond Project held in Yellowknife on February 14, 1996, featuring presentations from the Northern Environmental Coalition (Ecology North, Canadian Nature Federation, and Canadian Arctic Resources Committee) addressing cumulative environmental impacts, protected areas, sustainable development, and concerns regarding wildlife habitat and indigenous rights in the Lac de Gras region.
- Date
- Document type
- Report
- Parties
- Federal Environmental Assessment Panel, Letha MacLachlan, Cindy Kenny-Gilday, Walter Kupsch, Jessie Sloan, BHP Diamonds Inc., Jim Excell, Karen Azinger, David Boyd, Terry Janes, Clem Pelletier, Ecology North, Charles Laird, Andrew Spaulding, Canadian Nature Federation, Canadian Arctic Resources Committee, Northern Environmental Coalition, Larry Reynolds, Sierra Legal Defence Fund, World Wildlife Fund, Monte Hummel, NWT Chamber of Mines, Tom Hoefer, Dene Nation, Bill Erasmus, Chief Darrell Beaulieu
- Locations
- Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Lac de Gras, Slave province, West Kitikmeot region, Barren Lands, Hood River, Burnside River, Ulu project, Echo Bay, Papua New Guinea, Vancouver Island, Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Bathurst caribou herd, Labrador, Bluenose caribou herd, Central Arctic, Ndilo, Dettah, Lupin, Rankin
- Parameters
- environmental impact assessment, cumulative effects, protected areas, wildlife habitat, caribou, grizzly bears, baseline studies, monitoring programs, land-use permits, sustainable development, ecosystem conservation, species at risk, greenhouse gas emissions, wilderness preservation, land claims, treaty entitlements, Eskimo curlew, environmental regulation, corporate environmental record, fish and fish habitat
- Pages
- 110
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