Public Hearing Transcript, Technical Session General, Yellowknife (Federal Environmental Assessment Panel, February 23, 1996)
Federal Environmental Assessment Panel public hearing held in Yellowknife on February 23, 1996, reviewing BHP Diamonds Inc.'s proposed diamond mine project near Lac de Gras in the Northwest Territories. The transcript includes presentations from environmental advocates, aboriginal groups, economic development authorities, and individual citizens expressing concerns about environmental impacts, insufficient baseline data, and socio-economic implications, alongside support from business and development interests.
- Date
- 1996-02-23
- Document type
- report
- Parties
- Federal Environmental Assessment Panel, Letha MacLachlan, Cindy Kenny-Gilday, Walter Kupsch, Jessie Sloan, BHP Diamonds Inc., Jim Excell, Terry Janes, David Boyd, Luci Davis, Vivian Banci, Mary-Anne Bromley, Andrew Spaulding, Yellowknife Economic Development Authority, Garth Wallbridge, Archie Gillies, Yellowknife Metis Local 66, Darcy Arden, Edwin Bourque, Jim Bourque, Metis Nation of the Northwest Territories, Government of the Northwest Territories, Kennecott, Northern Environmental Coalition, NWT Enviro Watch
- Locations
- Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Lac de Gras, Barrens, Fort Rae, Dettah, Boston property, Bathurst caribou herd calving grounds, Great Slave Lake, East Arm, Colville Lake, Kapami-Tu, Great Bear Lake, West Kitikmeot Slave Region, Kent Peninsula, Barren Lands, Fort Smith
- Parameters
- environmental assessment, water quality, water contamination, radioactive contamination, radium 226, uranium, waste rock piles, revegetation, caribou abundance, Bathurst herd, wildlife, birds, white-fronted geese, grizzly bears, fish, wolves, wolverines, Arctic foxes, baseline data, cumulative environmental impacts, socio-economic impacts, employment, aboriginal rights, benefits agreements, environmental monitoring, traditional knowledge, closure
- Pages
- 87
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