Arsenic occurs naturally in the Earth’s soil and water. Arsenic is also used to make products such as glass, paper, textiles, pesticides, and is also released into the environment through industrial activities, such as mining. This brochure will give you plenty of information on the legacy arsenic around Yellowknife.
Newsletter for the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) explaining how they conducts annual aerial surveys in areas occupied by mature spruce forests as a priority, mostly because of their significance as a preferred host for the most serious insect pest in the NWT.
Conservation planning, Have your say, Hunting, trapping and harvesting, Legislation, regulations, policy and guidelines, Monitoring, Research and data, Wildlife and nature
The Giant Mine Remediation Project Team has authorized two other health-related studies. They each have different purposes and build on the information from the HHERA.
Full title: Estimates of breeding females & adult herd size and analyses of demographics for the bluenose-east herd of barren-ground caribou: 2018 calving ground photographic survey.
John Boulanger, Jan Adamczewski, John Nishi3, Dean Cluff, Judy Williams, Heather Sayine-Crawford, and Lisa Marie LeClerc. 98 pp. Wildlife Manuscript Report 278.
Publication date:
May 2019
Resource Category:
Monitoring, Research and data, Wildlife and nature
L’équipe du Projet d’assainissement de la mine Giant a autorisé deux autres études liées à la santé. Elles ont toutes des objectifs différents et s’appuient sur les renseignements de l’ERSHE.
Il s’agit de l’évaluati on de l’effi cacité du régime de réglementati on ténois pour la protecti on de l’environnement. La vérifi cati on environnementale permet de souligner tant les diffi cultés que les réussites de la démarche. L’une de ses principales foncti ons est de formuler des recommandations pour améliorer la gesti on de l’environnement.
The NWT Environmental Audit checks to see how well our northern regulatory system is working to protect the environment. It can identi fy both successes and challenges. A key role of the Audit is to make recommendati ons that will improve how the environment is managed.
En 2017-2018, des progrès ont été réalisés dans tous les domaines d’activité du plan d’action.
Pour obtenir des précisions sur ce programme, consultez le www.nwtcimp.ca.
Pour connaître les résultats des travaux de surveillance, consultez le nwtdiscoveryportal.enr.gov.nt.ca
