3 long-time Ekati mine monitoring board members removed – CBC
Feb 19, 2015
The Northwest Territories government, Dominion Diamond Corporation and the federal government are removing three long-time members of the board responsible for monitoring Dominion’s Ekati mine.
The move comes in the middle of an environmental assessment of Dominion’s proposed expansion of the mine and at least one aboriginal group says the change is going to weaken the assessment.
Last week, three of the seven members of the Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency — chair Bill Ross, Kim Poole and Laura Johnston — were notified their time on the board will end next month.
Four aboriginal groups appoint the remaining four members of the board.
