Traditional Knowledge and the NWT Diamonds Project (GNWT, 1996)
The Government of the Northwest Territories submits recommendations to the BHP Diamond Mine Environmental Assessment Panel on incorporating traditional knowledge into the project's environmental assessment and long-term monitoring strategy. The submission addresses methodologies for conducting traditional knowledge research, integrating traditional knowledge into decision-making processes, and specific comments on how traditional knowledge should inform the project's biological, socioeconomic, and cumulative effects assessments.
- Date
- Document type
- Regulatory Filing
- Parties
- Government of the Northwest Territories, Department of Renewable Resources, BHP Diamonds Incorporated, Blackwater Group, BHP Diamond Mine Environmental Assessment Panel, Aboriginal organizations, Dene Cultural Institute, Nunavut Research Institute, Canadian Polar Commission, Beverly/Qamanirjuaq Caribou Management Board, Department of Health and Social Services, Department of Justice, Department of Education, Culture and Employment, Aurora College, Nunavut Arctic College
- Locations
- Northwest Territories, Yellowknife, Fort Good Hope, North America
- Parameters
- traditional knowledge, environmental assessment, wildlife impacts, caribou, renewable resource harvesting, water quality, air quality, socioeconomic impacts, cumulative effects, baseline monitoring, environmental indicators, traditional economies, cross-cultural awareness, language preservation
- Pages
- 61
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