This Plan responds to concerns heard by the Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment (ITI) from various Prelude Lake Territorial Park (the Park) users. It also highlights the need for additional planning to help deal with issues stemming from increased use, coupled with deferred investment in park infrastructure.
This paper describes the projected extent and duration of hydrocarbon exploration activities within the Sahtu Settlement Area over the next five years, potential opportunities and challenges associated with the exploration activities that will provide an informed focus for GNWT efforts and initiatives, and presents baseline information that will serve as a means to evaluate the effectiveness of the GNWT response to the opportunities and challenges going forward.
The report looks at about 22 socio-economic areas to see how much each changed between 1996 before the first mine became operational and 2011 to see if and how communities have been effected by the diamond mining industry.