Public Hearings, Technical Session, Socio-Economics, BHP Diamonds NWT Diamonds Project (Multiple parties, February 1996)
Federal Environmental Assessment Panel public hearing on the socio-economic effects of BHP Diamonds Inc.'s proposed Northwest Territories diamonds project near Lac de Gras, held in Yellowknife on February 21, 1996. Presentations and testimony address employment projections, economic benefits, community impacts, environmental technologies, and monitoring plans, with input from BHP representatives, territorial government officials, aboriginal groups, and community stakeholders.
- Date
- 1996-02-21
- Document type
- report
- Parties
- BHP Diamonds Inc., Federal Environmental Assessment Panel, Government of the Northwest Territories, NWT Construction Association, Northern Environmental Coalition, NWT Chamber of Mines, Metis Nation Northwest Territories, Yellowknife Chamber of Commerce, Canadian Nature Federation, Dene Culture Institute, Nunavut Impact Review Board, Canadian Arctic Resources Committee, Dene Nation, Barren Ground Caribou Association
- Locations
- Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Lac de Gras, Hay River, Wha Ti, Lutsel K'e, New Mexico, Navajo Nation, Four Corners, Window Rock, Arizona, Ingraham Trail, Snare Lake
- Parameters
- socio-economic impacts, employment, training, contracting, land-based economy, caribou, traditional lifestyle, unemployment rate, earned income, wages and benefits, power generation, tailings management, waste dump design, reclamation, environmental monitoring, social problems, alcohol and drug abuse, community mobilization
- Pages
- 105
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