GMRP Socio- Economics
- The Project team has been guided by a SocioEconomic Strategy (the Strategy) since 2016. The purpose of the Strategy is to provide guidance to the Giant Mine Remediation Project (GMRP) team for identifying and delivering socioeconomic benefits to the region, while minimizing and mitigating potential negative social impacts associated with the Project. The Project team led a comprehensive update to the Strategy in 2022-23, integrating feedback from rights holders and stakeholders from the past five years. The overall aim of the updated 5-year (2023- 2028) Strategy is to maximize socio-economic benefits for Northerners and Indigenous Peoples and to deliver on regional socio-economic commitments and requirements.
- For more information on Socio-Economic aspects of the Project, head to CIRNAC.
- Parsons Main Construction Manager’s Giant Mine Remediation Project has more information on upcoming contracts.
- The GMRP Annual Report Section 8 has a substantial section dedicated to reporting on Socio-Economic aspects of the project.
- In 2021, the City of Yellowknife (Yellowknife) and Yellowknives Dene First Nation (YKDFN) raised concerns that benefits from the project could be flowing outside of the Northwest Territories (NWT). Notably, it was the political leadership of YKDFN that requested data, while GMRP proponents have mainly been in contact with the Det’on Cho Corporation (the economic development arm of the First Nation). The GNWT Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment (ITI) produces an annual report about the Socio-Economic Agreement (SEA) benefits that mines provide to the NWT and was asked to apply this lens to the GMRP (reporting in 2021 included Ekati, Diavik, and Gahcho Kué). To investigate the concern and produce a procurement analysis, ITI has worked with Environment and Natural Resources (ENR), the federal government GMRP team, as well as Parsons, the Main Construction Manager responsible for overseeing activities at site. ITI role, and link to their procurement report.