Review of the BHP Diamond Mine Environmental Impact Statement (Metis Nation NWT, October 1995)
The Metis Nation - Northwest Territories submits a review of the BHP Diamond Mine Environmental Impact Statement, identifying deficiencies in the proponent's treatment of socioeconomic impacts on Metis people, and requests enhanced participation rights in the assessment panel's public hearings process. The submission emphasizes gaps in addressing Metis land rights, employment equity, business opportunities, and cumulative socioeconomic effects across NWT communities.
- Date
- Document type
- Regulatory Filing
- Parties
- Metis Nation - Northwest Territories, BHP Diamond Mine Environmental Assessment Panel, Letha MacLaughlan, Gary Bohnet
- Locations
- Northwest Territories, Yellowknife, 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, Nunavut
- Parameters
- socioeconomic conditions, employment opportunities, business development, land claims, Aboriginal rights, human resources, preferential hiring, community infrastructure, housing market, cumulative effects, in-migration, training, environmental assessment
- Pages
- 10
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