Submission to the BHP Diamond Mine Environmental Assessment Review Panel, General Session (NWT Chamber of Mines, February 14, 1996)
The NWT Chamber of Mines submits its position to the BHP Diamond Mine environmental assessment panel, arguing that the Diamonds Project at Lac de Gras is economically important to the NWT and that environmental and socio-economic concerns can be adequately mitigated through established regulatory mechanisms and industry best practices demonstrated at comparable northern mines.
- Date
- 1996-02-14
- Document type
- regulatory-filing
- Parties
- NWT Chamber of Mines, BHP, Environmental Assessment Review Panel, DIAND, Lupin Mine, Red Dog Mine, Cominco, NANA Regional Corporation, Cogema Resources, GNWT-Renewable Resources, Northern Environmental Coalition
- Locations
- Northwest Territories, Lac de Gras, Yellowknife, Lupin Mine, Alaska, Cape Krusenstern National Monument, Chukchi Sea, northern Saskatchewan, Slave Province
- Parameters
- environmental management, caribou monitoring, wildlife impacts, acid mine drainage, tailings management, aboriginal employment, northern hiring preferences, socio-economic benefits, traditional knowledge, ice roads, ore concentration
- Pages
- 9
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