5 record(s) found with the tag "environmental damage" (multi-year projects are grouped):
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Toxic Legacies: Community Perspectives on Arsenic Pollution at Yellowknife's Giant Mine
Principal Investigator: Sandlos, John K
Licensed Year(s): 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013
Summary: The objective is to use academic and non-academic media to examine and communicate community perspectives on the history, and current problem, of arsenic deposition in Yellowknife. The research team will not only ask how these historical memories have influenced the current controversy over the Giant Mine Remediation Project, but will also examine the challenges of communicating the extreme hazard...


Increasing Boreal Forest Fire: Future Impacts on Arctic Environment and Climate
Principal Investigator: Stocks, Brian J
Licensed Year(s): 2007
Summary: The research aims to characterize the physical and chemical properties of forest fire smoke and its impact on the Artic. Three aircraft (CT-133 jet, Dehavilland Sea Heron and Dehavilland Twin Otter) based out of Yellowknife, equipped with standard scientific atmospheric chemistry sampling instrumentation, will be used to sample smoke while airborne. Sampling will take place opportunistically as fi...


Cycle 2 Environmental Effects Monitoring for Giant Mine
Principal Investigator: Vogel, Sharon C
Licensed Year(s): 2006
Summary: The purpose of the study is to characterize environmental conditions in the project area and supplement existing environmental information to determine if mine effluent is affecting aquatic organisms. Fisheries resources will be sampled in areas that historically or presently receive mine effluent, and in reference areas not exposed to mine effluent for comparative purposes. Water quality, fish, a...


Investigation of groundwater conditions and fate of fuel spills in subsurface, Wrigley, NWT
Principal Investigator: Van Stempvoort, Dale R.
Licensed Year(s): 2005
Summary: The objectives of this study are to 1) address information gaps with respect to groundwater quality and quantity along the proposed pipeline corridor; 2)gather groundwater information along the corridor between Fort Simpson and Great Bear Lake; 3) examine remediation processes for, and results of, petroleum spills in the north; and 4) help the Department of Transportation investigate potential gro...


Licence #2692
Principal Investigator: Cook, Fred D.
Licensed Year(s): 1981
Summary: To continue a long-term study of the natural degradation of oil spills....


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