Ekati mine expansion in N.W.T. doesn’t need Nunavut review: feds – CBC
Jul 22, 2015
Kitikmeot Inuit Association wants a separate, Nunavut-led review of expansion project
The federal government says the proposed expansion of the N.W.T.’s Ekati diamond mine doesn’t need a second environmental review.
That’s good news for Dominion Diamond Corporation, which hopes to begin construction on the new open pit in the second half of 2016.
But it’s not what the Kitikmeot Inuit Association wanted. It had requested that Nunavut’s chief regulator, the Nunavut Impact Review Board, do its own review of the Jay project. That review would come on top of the environmental assessment currently being carried out by the N.W.T.’s Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board (MVEIRB).
