Traditional Knowledge and the NWT Diamonds Project, Submission to the Traditional Knowledge Technical Session (GNWT, February 1996)
A submission by the Government of the Northwest Territories to the BHP Diamond Mine Environmental Assessment Panel examining how traditional knowledge has been incorporated into the project's environmental impact statement and providing recommendations for meaningful integration of traditional knowledge into project operations, mitigation measures, and long-term monitoring. The document includes guidance on conducting traditional knowledge research, incorporating it into decision-making, and identifying impact indicators for renewable resource harvesting.
- Date
- 1996
- Document type
- regulatory-filing
- Parties
- Government of the Northwest Territories, Department of Renewable Resources, BHP Diamond Mine, BHP Diamonds Incorporated, Blackwater Group, Traditional Knowledge Technical Session, Environmental Assessment Panel, Aboriginal organizations, Dene Cultural Institute, Nunavut Research Institute, Canadian Polar Commission, Beverly/Qamanirjuaq Caribou Management Board, Aurora College, Nunavut Arctic College, Department of Education, Culture and Employment, Mackenzie Environmental Monitoring Program (MEMP), Fee-Yee Consulting Ltd., P.J. Usher Consulting Services
- Locations
- Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, NWT, North America, Fort Good Hope, Ekati Diamond Mine
- Parameters
- traditional knowledge, environmental assessment, water quality, wildlife impacts, caribou, renewable resource harvesting, baseline data, monitoring programs, cumulative effects, socioeconomic impacts, traditional economies, cross-cultural awareness, environmental indicators, harvest monitoring, wage employment, land use
- Pages
- 61
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