Submission to the Environmental Assessment Panel Hearings on the BHP NWT Diamonds Project (Nunavut Water Board Transition Team, February 1996)
The Nunavut Water Board Transition Team submits comments to the Environmental Assessment Panel on the BHP NWT Diamonds Project, emphasizing the NWB's jurisdictional mandate over water management in Nunavut under the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement and identifying deficiencies in the project's Environmental Impact Statement regarding water licensing, Inuit compensation, monitoring protocols, and cumulative impacts on downstream communities.
- Date
- Document type
- Letter
- Parties
- Nunavut Water Board Transition Team, Environmental Assessment Panel, BHP, Nunavut Planning Commission, Nunavut Impact Review Board, Nunavut Wildlife Management Board, Nunavut Water Board, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Northern Environmental Coalition, Hunters and Trappers Organization (Kugluktuk)
- Locations
- Nunavut Settlement Area, Northwest Territories, Ekati Diamond Mine, Lac de Gras, Coppermine, Kugluktuk, Umingmaktok, Bathurst Inlet, Coppermine River, Coppermine drainage basin
- Parameters
- water quality, water quantity, water licensing, water management, hydrology, streamflow, dewatering, aquatic habitat, runoff water, discharge criteria, suspended solids, fish contamination, cumulative impacts, water use compensation, Inuit water rights, monitoring programs, caribou crossing, air-blown contaminants
- Pages
- 8
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