Review of BHP Diamond Mine Environmental Impact Statement Submission (Metis Nation NWT, October 1995)
The Metis Nation of the Northwest Territories submits a letter and detailed report reviewing the BHP Diamond Mine Environmental Impact Statement, identifying significant deficiencies in socioeconomic analysis related to Metis employment, land claims, business opportunities, and community impacts. The submission requests the panel grant them the right to question expert witnesses and comment on hearing procedures, and recommends the proponent address 10 key areas including spatial boundaries, Metis land rights, human resources inventory, preferential hiring legality, and cumulative effects assessment.
- Date
- Document type
- Regulatory Filing
- Parties
- Metis Nation - Northwest Territories, Letha MacLaughlan, BHP Diamond Mine Environmental Assessment Panel, Gary Bohnet
- Locations
- Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Fort Liard, Fort Simpson, Fort Providence, Fort Smith, Fort Resolution, Hay River, Rae-Edzo, Fort Good Hope, Fort Norman, Aklavik, Arctic Red River, Inuvik, Norman Wells, Fort McPherson, Western Arctic, Slave Geological Province
- Parameters
- socioeconomic conditions, employment, land claims, Aboriginal rights, business opportunities, contracting, training, community demographics, in-migration, housing market, cumulative effects, preferential hiring, waste disposal, thermal inversions, project monitoring, closure and abandonment
- Pages
- 10
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