Board approves N.W.T. seismic workTHIS PARAMOUNT RESOURCES ISSUE WHAT DEBEERS USED IN COURT ON TUESDAY
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The board responsible for environmental assessments in the Mackenzie Valley recently approved more seismic work in the N.W.T.'s Cameron Hills, although it admits it will be harmful to the region's caribou.
The Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board says a seismic program by Paramount Resources will have a "significant adverse impact" on caribou in the southwestern corner of the Northwest Territories.
The caribou are a threatened species under federal Species at Risk legislation.
The review board, which released its report Nov. 14, acknowledges there is a link between industrial development and declining caribou herds in the boreal forest, especially in Alberta.
But it says the risk to the caribou can be managed by making changes to cutlines.
Paramount has been active in the Cameron Hills for 25 years.
The N.W.T. government says the caribou are still there because there is a corridor of vegetation that allows them to move north and south through the region.
The review board's report now goes to the federal government for approval.