Public Hearing Transcript, Rae Lakes (Federal Environmental Assessment Panel, January 23, 1996)
Federal Environmental Assessment Panel public hearing held in Rae Lakes on January 23, 1996, to review BHP Diamonds Inc.'s proposed Northwest Territories diamonds project near Lac de Gras. BHP presented detailed plans for mine development, environmental studies, and socio-economic benefits, while Dogrib leaders and community members expressed concerns about environmental contamination, wildlife impacts, land rights, and the need for formal agreements respecting their traditional land use and governance.
- 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, Vivian Banci, Clem Pelletier, ResCan Environmental Services, Black Water Group, Diamet Minerals Limited, Chuck Fipke, Stewart Blusson, Chief Henry Gon, Grand Chief Joe Rabesca, Dogrib Nation, Dogrib Treaty 11, Treaty 8 Yellowknives Dene, Inuit, Department of Renewable Resources, University of Saskatchewan
- Locations
- Rae Lakes, Northwest Territories, Lac de Gras, Yellowknife, Coppermine, Snare Lake, Wha Ti, Gameti, Long Lake, Lupin Gold Mine, Bathurst Inlet, Coppermine River, Echo Bay, Great Slave Lake, Sahtu region, Terra Mine, Slavic geological province, Misery operation, Slipper Lake, Lake Providence, Vancouver Island, Navajo Nation, New Mexico, Siberia, Fort Rae, Vulture Lake, Panda Lake, Koala Lake
- Parameters
- water quality, water quantity, water flow, fish habitat, caribou migration, grizzly bears, wildlife displacement, air quality, nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide, dust emissions, permafrost, groundwater, tailings impoundment, kimberlite mining, diamond extraction, open pit mining, reclamation, habitat mapping, wetland, eskers, archaeological sites, employment, unemployment, earned income, socio-economic effects, traditional land use, community mobilization
- Pages
- 42
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