Workshop for an Environmental Agreement for the BHP Diamonds Project (DIAND, September 1996)
Workshop held September 23-24, 1996 at Prince of Wales Heritage Centre to discuss negotiation of an Environmental Agreement for the BHP Diamonds Project in Lac de Gras, NWT. The document includes workshop agenda, framework for establishing an Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency, possible terms of the Environmental Agreement, and eight backgrounders covering the project approval, land claims, economic benefits, environmental assessment process, West Kitikmeot Slave Study, protected areas strategy, and federal response to 29 panel recommendations.
- Date
- Document type
- Report
- Parties
- BHP Diamonds Inc., Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (DIAND), Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT), Department of Environment (DOE), Environmental Assessment Review Panel (EARP), Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency, Dogrib Treaty 11 Council, Yellowknives Dene, Canadian Wildlife Service, Parks Canada
- Locations
- Prince of Wales Heritage Centre, Lac de Gras, Northwest Territories, West Kitikmeot/Slave Study area, Behcho Ko, Yellowknife, Rae-Edzo, Wha Ti, Gameti, Wekweti, Deline, Coppermine, Great Slave Lake, Coronation Gulf, Slave Geological Province, Echo Bay, Point Lake
- Parameters
- environmental monitoring, water quality, caribou management, grizzly bear monitoring, wildlife habitat, tailings management, air quality, reclamation and restoration, waste disposal, fuel spill prevention, traditional ecological knowledge, environmental effects monitoring, acid generation from waste rock, kimberlite toxicity, nitrogen contamination, suspended particulates, bird surveys, radiological data
- Pages
- 74
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