NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Hayward, April
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5823. The purpose of the baseline program field studies is to characterize existing conditions in the project vicinity and surrounding region to support project planning, permitting, and development of a proposed lithium mine. Air Quality One continuous air quality monitoring station will be installed to measure ambi...

Principal Investigator: Kalinovich, Indra
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5312. The objective of this project is to address the data gaps at the Thompson-Lundmark Mine site. The data collected from the field program will be used to inform the future Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessments in order to achieve appropriate remedial objectives for the site to satisfy the Federal Contaminated Sit...

Principal Investigator: McLean, Sarah C
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4858. The objective of the project is to conduct environmental monitoring of wildlife (incidental observations only), vegetation, air quality, hydrology, and aquatics in the Snap Lake study area. Methods used are outlined in the management and monitoring plans (aquatic effects monitoring program, water management plan [s...

Principal Investigator: Gingras, Nathalie
Licensed Year(s): 2016
Summary: The key question to be addresses is: how to improve the assessment, regulatory and associated decision-making processes in Canada to avoid negative mine legacies and build lasting net gains. The objective of this research is to identify ways to increase the likelihood of positive mine legacies, with a focus on sustainability-based environmental assessments. This research involves semi-structure...

Principal Investigator: McGetrick, Jennifer Ann
Licensed Year(s): 2014 2013
Summary: The overall objective of the research is to evaluate the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as a health communication tool for consultation with stakeholders in environmental assessment of the Nico Project in the Tlicho Region of the Northwest Territories. By documenting stakeholder's evaluation of GIS in the environmental assessment, the research will help to inform best practices and pr...

Principal Investigator: Fraser, Gail S
Licensed Year(s): 2012
Summary: The research will provide 1) a systematic pan-Canadian analysis and critique of problematic environmental assessment trends (for example, the lack of publicly available environmental data, inconsistent environmental effects monitoring programs, difficulties addressing cumulative effects, and ineffective public consultation), and 2) practical policy solutions to these trends in the form of "best pr...

Principal Investigator: Lukas-Amulung, Sandra E
Licensed Year(s): 2008
Summary: The objectives of this research are to: describe the problematic overlap between NWT environmental assessment (EA) and negotiated agreements (NA); prepare several project review process models to explore possible relationships between NA and EA; evaluate the models and select a preferred model during an expert workshop; and assess the suitability of the preferred model using the views of First Nat...

Principal Investigator: Fitzpatrick, Patricia
Licensed Year(s): 2008
Summary: The purpose of this research is to understand how different environmental assessment (EA) processes across Canada are harmonized, and how harmonization impacts public participation. The Mackenzie Gas Project is the most complex assessment in this regard, makes an ideal study model of EA. The first objective of this research, that has already been completed, involves documenting the frequency of...

Principal Investigator: Borsy, Emily Jane E
Licensed Year(s): 2008 2007
Summary: The objective of this research is to obtain primary information about the gravel situation in the ISR from a variety of industry perspectives. The researchers wish to fill in a gap in information linking supply and demand to community stress and vulnerability, obtaining this information through interviews with industry professionals. The research will be conducted in two stages. The first sta...

Principal Investigator: Mueller, Thea
Licensed Year(s): 2006
Summary: The research aims to understand First Nations’ perspectives of large-scale industrial projects, such as the Mackenzie Gas Project. The three objectives of the research project centre on discovering: how people talk about development projects in the public and private spheres; if and how thinking about industrialization in the North varies between different social groups (e.g., by age, employment s...