Regions: Inuvialuit Settlement Region
Tags: environmental impact, petroleum industry, biology, revegetation, vegetation, traditional knowledge, industrial development, pipeline corridor, rare plants, environment, land use management, Mackenzie Gas Project, environmental protection plan, ecological mapping
Principal Investigator: | Povey, Andrew (93) |
Licence Number: | 13288 |
Organization: | TERA Environmental Consultants |
Licensed Year(s): |
2005
2004
2003
2002
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Issued: | Mar 26, 2002 |
Project Team: | Tim Van Egmond, Dana Bush, Dave Reid |
Objective(s): Imperial Oil Resources, CONOCO Canada Resources Limited, Shell Canada Limited, and ExxonMobil Canada initiated a number of Baseline Studies during 2001 as part of a feasibility study for the Mackenzie Delta Gas Opportunity. These studies are being continued in 2002. Local knowledge and technical/scientific research, in combination with a synthesis of existing technical information, is being used to develop a suitable knowledge base for planning, assessment of impacts and development of environmental protection plans. TERA Environmental Consultants (TERA), in association with Kavik-AXYS Environmental Consulting Ltd., AMEC Earth & Environmental Ltd., and Golder Associates Ltd., has been retained to conduct the baseline studies. The proposed research program involves terrestrial studies in the Inuvialuit Settlement Area to be conducted during 2002. Initial vegetation investigations were conducted in summer 2001 to classify vegetation along the study corridor. This classification was essentially completed in the Inuvialuit Settlement Area. Vegetation studies during 2002 will focus on locating areas of rare or uncommon plants. These studies will only be conducted if a proposed pipeline route is surveyed and staked in 2002. If additional vegetation community typing is required, it will be conducted at the same time as the rare plant surveys. Traditional knowledge will be identified, gathered and validated through participative, community driven research methods.
Project Description: The proposed research program involves terrestrial studies in the Inuvialuit Settlement Area to be conducted during 2002. Initial vegetation investigations were conducted in summer 2001 to classify vegetation along the study corridor. This classification was essentially completed in the Inuvialuit Settlement Area. Vegetation studies during 2002 will focus on locating areas of rare or uncommon plants. These studies will only be conducted if a proposed pipeline route is surveyed and staked in 2002. In the event that a potential pipeline route is surveyed and staked in 2001, rare plant surveys will be conducted along its length. Local assistants will be requested to help identify plants of cultural or traditional importance. Each study team will consist of senior personnel familiar with the flora of the survey regions, as well as a local assistant hired as part of the vegetation survey team to assist in observing and... Show more