Sable, Pigeon & Beartooth Kimberlite Pipes Water Licence Application, Interventions Submitted for Public Hearing (IEMA, March 2002)
The Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency submits an intervention to the Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board regarding BHP Billiton's application for the Sable, Pigeon, and Beartooth mine expansion at Ekati, identifying concerns about fish passage in the Pigeon diversion channel, inadequate tundra soil seepage studies, and insufficient geochemical characterization of waste rock for safe long-term storage.
- Date
- 2002
- Document type
- Regulatory Filing
- Parties
- Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency, Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board, BHP Billiton Diamonds Inc., Yellowknives Dene First Nation, Environment Canada, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Government of Northwest Territories
- Locations
- Ekati Diamond Mine, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Pigeon watershed, Sable pipe, Beartooth pipe, Ulu Lake, Misery
- Parameters
- water quality, fish productivity, fish passage, seepage, heavy metals, suspended solids, nitrogen, waste rock management, geochemical characterization, acid-base accounting, kinetic testing, tundra soil filtering, rock geochemistry, aquatic habitat
- Pages
- 116
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