Yellowknives Dene First Nation Submissions to Federal Panel Reviewing the BHP Diamond Project, Exhibit P.H. 027 (YKDFN, February 1996)
This document collection includes recommendations from Yellowknives Dene First Nation to the federal EARP panel reviewing the BHP diamond project, addressing winter roads, hiring, revenue-sharing, and cumulative effects monitoring; a letter from Chief Darrell Beaulieu regarding stalled impact/benefit negotiations with BHP; and a comprehensive position paper on Treaty 8 coexistence in Akaitcho Territory presenting the Dene vision of shared jurisdiction, land rights, and governance arrangements with the federal government.
- Date
- Document type
- Regulatory Filing
- Parties
- Yellowknives Dene First Nation, Yellowknives Dene Band, BHP, Federal EARP Panel, Letha MacLachlan, Chief Darrell Beaulieu, Jim Excell, Gerry Baer, Minister Ron Irwin, DIAND, Federal Government of Canada, British Crown, Dogrib First Nation, Dene Nation, Lutsel k'e, Hay River, NWT Treaty 8 Dene
- Locations
- Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Akaitcho Territory, Ekati, Lac de Gras, Contwoyto Lake, Yellowknife Bay, Nunavut, Mackenzie Valley, Deninu kue, Lutsel k'e, Great Slave Lake, Dettah, Ndilo, Fort FitzGerald, Salt Plains, Parker Line, Hay River Reserve, Alberta, Western Arctic
- Parameters
- winter roads, hiring and employment, worker safety, X-ray security checks, revenue-sharing, devolution, cumulative effects monitoring, environmental management, land use and occupancy, wildlife management, water resources, hunting, trapping, and fishing rights, environmental protection, land withdrawal, mineral exploration, caribou, whooping cranes, buffalo management, forestry, non-renewable resources
- Pages
- 21
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