Regions: Sahtu Settlement Area
Tags: site remediation, environmental impact, petroleum industry, permafrost, biology, soil, vegetation, industrial development, environmental sensitivity index, rare plants, landscape assessment, Mackenzie Gas Project, ground cover, environmental protection plan, Sahtu
| Principal Investigator: | Povey, Andrew (93) |
| Licence Number: | 13377 |
| Organization: | TERA Environmental Consultants |
| Licensed Year(s): |
2002
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| Issued: | Jul 30, 2002 |
| Project Team: | Tim Van Eg |
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 Sahtu Settlement Area to be conducted during 2002. These studies will include vegetation and soils investigations as well as the collection of traditional knowledge regarding terrestrial resources (vegetation and wildlife). Investigations to classify the vegetation along the study corridor in the Sahtu Settlement Area begun in 2001 will be continued. In 2002, work initiated on Crown lands will be completed on Sahtu private lands. In addition, in the event that a pipeline route is surveyed and staked, rare plant surveys will also be conducted in the Sahtu region. Detailed information on tree, shrub and groundcover species, which is needed to confirm vegetation communities, prepare vegetation community maps, provide forestry information, collect revegetation information and develop wildlife habitat models, will be developed. Soil classification and profiling, which will follow the Canadian System of Soil Classification, will be completed. This amendment allows rare plant surveys to be conducted without a staked route.
