Response to the BHP/Diamet Environmental Impact Statement (Northern Environmental Coalition (NEC), October 1995)
The Northern Environmental Coalition's comprehensive response to the BHP/Diamet Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Ekati Diamond Mine identifies significant omissions and deficiencies across five major areas: biological impacts, cumulative effects, reclamation, socio-economic impacts, and traditional knowledge. The response critiques the EIS for inadequate treatment of wildlife management, water quality monitoring, fish habitat protection, and failure to conduct true cumulative effects assessment.
- Date
- 1995-10-23
- Document type
- regulatory-filing
- Parties
- Northern Environmental Coalition, Canadian Arctic Resources Committee, Canadian Nature Federation, Ecology North, World Wildlife Fund (Canada), BHP/Diamet, Federal Environmental Assessment and Review Office, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Department of Renewable Resources, Government of the Northwest Territories
- Locations
- Lac de Gras, Northwest Territories, Ekati Diamond Mine, Coppermine, Coppermine River System, Panda Lake, Koala Lake, Misery Lake, Long Lake, Conwoyto Lake, Desteffany Lake, Slave Geological Province, British Columbia, Alberta, Moose Mountain, Cadomin
- Parameters
- water quality, nitrogen compounds, ammonia, nitrate, phosphate, metal detection, fish habitat, caribou populations, caribou ecology, caribou management, grizzly bear habitat, grizzly bear movements, esker habitat, lemmings and voles, ptarmigan, fish spawning areas, lake trout, grayling, biological diversity, cumulative impacts, reclamation, revegetation, domestic sewage disposal, waste oil and grease disposal, ethylene glycol disposal, aircraft noise, background noise levels, socio-economic impacts, traditional knowledge, monitoring strategy
- Pages
- 33
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