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Régions: Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Gwich'in Settlement Area, Sahtu Settlement Area, Dehcho Region, North Slave Region, South Slave Region

étiquettes: social sciences, co-management, community based monitoring, research communication, public awareness, fracking

Objectif(s): To raise the profile of the Mackenzie River Basin throughout Canada and internationally; and to create public awareness of the importance of sound freshwater management, and the opportunities associated with community based monitoring.

Description du projet: This program seeks to develop innovative approaches to communications with the ultimate goal of strengthening citizen engagement in and co-management of the Basin’s freshwater resources. This infographic is to be developed as a public education piece to 1) raise the profile of the Mackenzie River Basin throughout Canada and internationally, and to 2) create public awareness of the importance of sound freshwater management, and the opportunities associated with community based monitoring. The method to gather primary research underpinning the Mackenzie Basin infographic will be in the form of reviewing existing data gathered about community-based monitoring and fracking sites in the Mackenzie Basin. Initial sources of data include the following: Steve Ellis (Tides Canada), Sahtu Land and Water Board, NWT Environment and Natural Resources, National Energy Board, Council for Canadians. The 'Mackenzie Basin Infographic' research project offers multiple potential benefits to the communities in the Mackenzie River Basin. The final product of this research project is an infographic, designed for non-experts, which communicates the locations of current and proposed 'fracking' sites in the Mackenzie Basin, as well as, the locations of government and non-government supported community-based monitoring sites. The aggregation of this data will be useful to local communities and decision makers. As well, the publishing of the Mackenzie Basin infographic will increase a broader awareness about the current 'state of play' regarding 'fracking' and community-based monitoring in the Mackenzie River Basin. The end product of this study, the infographic, will be published online and shared with the community in-person during the ongoing visits to the NWT employees of the Gordon Foundation's Water Program Office make. The fieldwork for this study will be conducted from February 17, 2014 to April 30, 2014.