Written Presentation to the Environmental Assessment Review Panel, BHP Scoping Session (Yellowknife Chamber of Commerce, April 11, 1995)
The Yellowknife Chamber of Commerce presents its position on the proposed BHP/Dia Met diamond mine project to the Environmental Assessment Review Panel, focusing on five key economic issues: location of mine administration offices, northern employment and work rotation schedules, purchasing policies favoring local suppliers, development of value-added industries such as diamond sorting and cutting in the North, and community benefits. The Chamber emphasizes the need for sustainable compensation to the NWT and outlines recommendations and clarifications requested from BHP to maximize economic benefits to Yellowknife and the broader region.
- Date
- Document type
- Presentation
- Parties
- Yellowknife Chamber of Commerce, Environmental Assessment Review Panel, BHP, Dia Met, Government of the Northwest Territories
- Locations
- Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Lac de Gras, Coppermine River Basin, Canada, Edmonton, Yellowknife Chamber of Commerce, Port Hardy, Vancouver Island, Namibia
- Parameters
- employment, northern hiring, work rotation schedules, purchasing policies, value-added industries, diamond sorting and cutting, community benefits, economic development, socio-economic impacts, training programs, wage employment, skilled labour
- Pages
- 53
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