Public Hearing Transcript, Northwest Territories Diamonds Project, Ndilo Session (Federal Environmental Assessment Panel, February 2, 1996)
Federal Environmental Assessment Panel public hearing in Ndilo on February 2, 1996, reviewing BHP Diamonds Inc.'s proposed diamond mine development near Lac de Gras in the Northwest Territories. The hearing includes presentations from the Yellowknives Dene Band detailing their historical connection to the land, treaty rights, and concerns about the project's impact on caribou, water quality, and sacred sites, followed by BHP's overview of the proposed open-pit mining operation.
- Date
- Document type
- Report
- Parties
- Federal Environmental Assessment Panel, BHP Diamonds Inc., Yellowknives Dene Band, Blackwater Group, DiaMet Minerals Limited, ResCan Environmental Services
- Locations
- Ndilo, Northwest Territories, Lac de Gras, Yellowknife, Dettah, Coppermine River, Great Slave Lake, Barren Lands, Echo Bay, Drybones Bay, Mackay Lake, Long Lake, Bathurst Inlet, Lupin Gold Mine, Snare Lake
- Parameters
- diamond mining, kimberlite, water quality, caribou, fish habitat, wildlife, grizzly bears, migratory birds, tailings impoundment, open-pit mining, environmental impact assessment, burial sites, sacred sites, land use, treaty rights, revegetation
- Pages
- 67
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