The Northwest Territories Environmental Studies Research Fund (ESRF) is a research program established to finance environmental and social studies relating to oil and gas activity in the NWT that will help inform decision making.
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Publication date:
July 2021
Resource Category:
Legislation, Regulations, Policies and Guidelines, Monitoring, Wildlife and nature
The Snap Lake Mine (Mine) is a diamond mine owned and operated by De Beers Canada Inc. (De Beers) and is approximately 220 kilometres (km) northeast of Yellowknife, NWT. A Wildlife Management Plan (WMP; De Beers 2008a) and Wildlife Effects Monitoring Program (WEMP; De Beers 2004) were developed and implemented as required under the Snap Lake Land Use Permit and Environmental Agreement.
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Publication date:
May 2021
Resource Category:
Legislation, Regulations, Policies and Guidelines, Monitoring
The Minister of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) of the Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) requires that Diavik Diamond Mines Inc. (DDMI) submit an updated Wildlife Management and Monitoring Plan (WMMP) to ENR for approval under section 95 of the Wildlife Act for the Diavik Diamond Mine project.
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Publication date:
May 2021
Resource Category:
Legislation, Regulations, Policies and Guidelines, Monitoring
Diavik Diamond Mines (2012) Inc.’s (DDMI) Tier 3 Wildlife Management and Monitoring Plan (WWMP) was developed based on the Government of Northwest Territories (GNWT) WMMP guidelines (GNWT 2019).
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Publication date:
May 2021
Resource Category:
Legislation, Regulations, Policies and Guidelines, Monitoring
The Minister of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) of the Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) has considered the potential impacts to wildlife and wildlife habitat associated with the Closure and Post-Closure phase of De Beers Canada Inc.’s (De Beers) Snap Lake Mine, as presented in the Final Closure and Reclamation Plan submitted to the Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board in March 2019.
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Publication date:
May 2021
Resource Category:
Legislation, Regulations, Policies and Guidelines, Monitoring
The Bilateral Management Committee (BMC) releases a water quality report as a component of the annual reporting requirements of the Alberta-Northwest Territories Bilateral Water Management Agreement (AB-NWT BWMA) each year. This is the third water quality report since the signing of the Agreement in 2015. It presents an assessment of the water quality data collected in the 2017 calendar year and the cooperative efforts of the AB-NWT water quality technical team in the 2017-2018 fiscal year.
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Publication date:
June 2020
Resource Category:
Legislation, Regulations, Policies and Guidelines, Monitoring, Research and data, Water, Wildlife and nature
The Bilateral Management Committee (BMC) has released this Annual Water Quality Report as a component of the 2016-2017 Alberta (AB)-Northwest Territories (NWT) BMC Annual Report to Ministers. The report presents an assessment of the water quality data collected in the 2016 calendar year and the cooperative efforts of the AB-NWT water quality technical team in the 2016-2017 fiscal year.
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Publication date:
June 2020
Resource Category:
Legislation, Regulations, Policies and Guidelines, Monitoring, Research and data, Water, Wildlife and nature
The 2017 Alberta-NWT Transboundary Water Quantity Technical Report provides an overview of 2017 water quantity data in the Hay and Slave River basins. Total annual streamflow in the Slave River in 2017 was slightly above average (105% of normal) while total annual flow in the Hay River was lower than average (46% of normal). On the Slave River annual consumptive use was well below 2 billion m3 , at 1.03 billion m3 . The pre-defined threshold of 2 billion m3 remained at 1.9% of the long term mean annual streamflow. On the Hay River, the total volume of groundwater and surface water licences exceeded 2.5% of the natural flows at the border in November, December, February, and March. This exceeded Trigger 1 and prompted analysis of Trigger 2. Actual water use was less than 1% of the natural flow at the border in all months, which was lower than the Trigger 2 threshold of 4% and also lower than the interim objective of 5%.
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Publication date:
June 2020
Resource Category:
Legislation, Regulations, Policies and Guidelines, Monitoring, Research and data, Water, Wildlife and nature
The Strategy will serve as a ten-year road map for improving waste resource management throughout the territory. / La stratégie servira de feuille de route décennale pour améliorer la gestion des déchets à l’échelle des TNO. (anglais seulement)
Publication date:
July 2019
Resource Category:
Climate change, Conservation planning, Contaminants, Legislation, Regulations, Policies and Guidelines, Monitoring, Wildlife and nature
Depuis le 1er juillet 2019, en vertu des règlements relatifs à la Loi sur la faune des Territoires du Nord-Ouest (TNO), de nouvelles restrictions s’appliquent à l’importation de cerfs vivants et de certaines parties de cerfs provenant d’animaux abattus.
Starting July 1, 2019, new restrictions on importing live deer and specific deer parts from harvested animals came into effect under the Northwest Territories (NWT) Wildlife Act regulations.
The Knowledge Agenda is a tool that will be used by GNWT leaders, planners, policy-makers and researchers, in conjunction with GNWT legislation, policies, strategies and plans to advance the strategic goals of government and ultimately improve the quality of information used to make decisions in the Territory.
Conservation planning, Hunting, trapping and harvesting, Legislation, Regulations, Policies and Guidelines, Monitoring, Research and data, Wildlife and nature