Intent of the Blueprint

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Intent of the Blueprint

• Revised December 2005
• Sound, integrated environmental and resource
  management system - implement CEAM Framework
• Tasks of institutions and decision-making
  processes more effective and efficient ?
  collaboration
• Components of the CEAM Framework function as
  integrated system
• Collective commitment and action

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Focus

• Gradual/staged implementation identifying
  priorities, taking immediate incremental steps
• Practical initiatives, reasonable time frame /
  budget
• Mutually reinforcing, build on existing legal
  regime / institutional arrangements
• Support and facilitate community / regional
  capacity development, ? role in processes
• Balance between territorial, regional and
  community-based initiatives
• Tools for decision makers / others

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Recommendations Actions

• Recommendations Actions for implementing the
  CEAM Strategy and Framework
• Nine Framework components
• Regional Plans of Action
• Traditional Knowledge
• Community and Organizational Capacity Development
• Short-Term 2-year period (grey)
• Medium 3 to 5-year period (blue)
• Long-Term 5 or more years (blue)

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1.1 Vision and Objectives

• Responsible economic development within a sound
  environmental management framework
• Decisions should reflect broad vision and
  objectives for NWT and its people
• Residents, organizations, governments -
  political, policy and planning processes
• Continue discussions and consultations, review
  for common elements
• JRP has asked for them
• Northern Strategy may articulate a vision
• Land Use planning processes

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Land Use Planning (1)

• 2.1 Implementation - Gwichin Land Use Plan
• 5-year implementation work plan 2005
• 2.2 Completion, approval, implementation - Sahtu
  Land Use Plan
• draft plan in preparation
• 2.3 Finalize LUP for Dehcho
• Revised plan distributed to Dehcho First Nations
  May 15 06 for review/approval confidential
  for review by leadership May 31.
• Subsequent distribution to federal/territorial
  government and others
• Thresholds have not changed, but requirements
  have RAs must consider if threshold exceeded,
  but not bound by them
• 3.1 Explore options for land use planning outside
  Tlicho lands - North Slave
• 3.2 Land use plan for Tlicho lands
• 3.3 Identification of interim land use planning
  options - South Slave

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Land Use Planning (2)

• 4.1 Funding and expertise
• 4.2 Identify / advance candidate areas - NWT PAS
• 5-year Mackenzie Valley action plan
• Additional work on moving candidate areas in
  various regions along in PAS process
• 4.3 Improve linkages - regional land use planning
  and other initiatives
• Tarium Niryutait marine protected area
• Oceans Action Plan Beaufort Sea component
• Great Bear Lake Management Plan May 2005

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Baseline Studies and Monitoring (1)

• 5.1 Implement NWT Cumulative Impact Monitoring
  Program (CIMP)
• Updated VC State of Knowledge report (February
  2005)
• Updated work plan (March 05)
• Treasury Board Submission in preparation
• Monitoring projects 05/06

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Baseline Studies and Monitoring (2)

• 5.2 Identify and fill gaps
• GNWT (ENR/RWED)
• Western NWT Biophysical Study (1M/each of five
  years)
• Ecosystem classification work
• FMD baseline forest/vegetation data, monitoring
  and information management
• WKSS interim projects
• 05-06 Movements/distribution of Bathurst Ahiak
  herds mine reclamation literature review
  wolverine abundance on the tundra Ni Hatni
• 06-07 ecosystem classification (Taiga Shield),
  wolverine abundance
• NWT CIMP
• NWT audit will also identify gaps when it is
  released
• Federal for MV, Delta and Beaufort Sea gaps
  (NOGR workshop November 2005)

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Baseline Studies and Monitoring (3)

• 5.3 Advance social, economic and cultural aspects
  of monitoring
• GNWT
• Social Agenda Community Demonstration Projects
  Initiatives Finance/Bureau of Statistics
• NWT Social Indicators
• Statistical Profiles for communities
• NWT Community Survey
• Drinking Water Framework
• Looking at linkages to Environment and
  Sustainable Development Indicators for Canada
• ESRF
• Cumulative Effects Project - VCs, indicators,
  thresholds, carrying capacity and/or limits of
  acceptable change - biophysical and social -
  Beaufort Delta area June 06?
• Beaufort Delta Agenda 2004
• Expanding indicator suite for use in ISR (e.g.,
  March 2006 workshop in Inuvik)

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Baseline Studies and Monitoring (4)

• 6.1 / 6.2 Continue work consistent protocols -
  monitoring, reporting and data management
  (biophysical and social, cultural, economic)
• Ongoing GNWT work on wolverine DNA/diamond mines
• MGP GNWT and INAC
• BSStRPA SCE work
• INAC guidelines for aquatic effects monitoring
  program

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Research (1)

• Focus ? assessment, management of cumulative
  effects
• 7.1 Identify / confirm CE research questions
• A northern science/research strategy.
• 7.2 Develop and implement ecological framework to
  guide research and monitoring, considering
  priority Valued Components and indicators
• GNWT Barren-Ground Caribou Management Strategy
  http//www.nwtwildlife.com/pdf/CaribouMgmtStrategy
  FINAL060130.pdf
• Boreal Caribou conservation consultations
  http//www.nwtwildlife.com/pdf/NWTBorealCaribouboo
  kletJan2006.pdf

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Research (2)

• 7.3 Determine carrying capacity, thresholds and
  limits of acceptable change - predictive tools
  and models
• ESRF Cumulative Effects Project for biophysical
  and social environment - Beaufort Delta area
  June 06?
• DCLUPC development of indicators and
  thresholds, integration into LUP (revised May 06)
• ENR/GNWT
• potential habitat models for woodland and barren
  land caribou, grizzly
• Sustainability indices for forest resources
• NEI Thresholds Research Project southeastern
  Yukon case study with potential application
  elsewhere in the North
• EC/INAC Thresholds workshop March 2006

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Research (3)

• 7.4 ID/fund priority research science and TK
• Digital elevation mapping Mackenzie
  Valley/Delta (federal/territorial governments)
• Enhanced mapping NRCan
• 7.5 Standardize CE research protocols
• 7.6 Social, economic and cultural aspects -
  integrate with other actions

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Audit and Reporting

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• 8.1/8.2 Minister of DIAND implement
  environmental audit process (Part 6 of the MVRMA)
  / address need for auditing for entire NWT
• NWT Environmental Audit submitted to Minister of
  DIAND December 2005
• 8.3/8.4 State of the Environment reports for
  the NWT need to be prepared
• NWT Environmental Audit (including trends)
  submitted to Minister of DIAND December 2005

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Project-Specific Screening, Environmental
Assessment Review (1)

• Ensure cumulative effects adequately addressed in
  project-specific processes
• E.g., Joint Coordinating Committee
  monitoring/follow-up, cumulative effects
• 10.1 CEA guidelines Review and update
• MVEIRB guidelines
• EIA and CEA appendix (2004)
• Traditional Knowledge (2005)
• Socio-Economic (including CEA)( in preparation
  (2006)
• EISC/EIRB CEA in ISR (2002)
• CEAAg Practitioners Guide (1999)
• 11.1Develop tools and resources for CEs in
  project-specific processes
• ESRF project Valued Components, indicators,
  thresholds
• NEI Thresholds Research Project
• Deh Cho CEA in LUP as framework
• MGP
• CARC, Pembina Institute CE of MGP
• IORVL responses to IRs, hypothetical scenario

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Project-Specific Screening, Environmental
Assessment Review (2)

• 11.2 Intervener funding
• MGP participant funding for joint review CEAAg
• 12.1/12.2 Coordinate, clarify processes (within
  NWT, and with provinces / territories)
• NWT Board Forum
• JRP EIS ToR for the MGP
• MVEIRB MOUs with Yukon and NIRB
• 12.3 Clarification of processes and relationships
• 12.4 Transboundary initiatives/development
  relevant to CEAM
• 12.5 Liaison between organizations common
  challenges and lessons learned

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Regulation and Enforcement

• 13. 1 Develop procedures, tools for CE management
• 13.2 Annual public reporting on existing / new
  permits and licenses
• 14.1/14.2 Improve frequency / quality of
  inspections examine alternative methods
• 14.3 Improve reporting - inspection and
  enforcement
• 14.4 Community involvement inspection
• 14.5 Environmental auditor aware of issues

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Information Management

• 15.1 Review earlier recommendations on info mgt
  and determine path forward
• LUDS meeting January 2006
• GNWT spatial data warehouse initiative
• 15.2 CEAM web site as portal
• 15.3 Develop Partnerships
• LUDS Working Group established, spring 2006

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Coordination

• 16.1 NWT CEAM SC to facilitate Blueprint
  implementation/ info sharing individual
  organizations responsible for specific actions
• 16.2 Provision of Secretariat
• 16.3 Strengthen social, cultural, economic
  aspects of framework
• 16.4 Annual gatherings
• 16.5 Ongoing oversight/review of Blueprint
• December 2005 revisions
• 16.6 Performance indicators
• Some under NWT Environmental Audit
• 16.7 Encourage implementation/lobby

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Regional Plans of Action (1)

• Develop regional plans of action for other
  priority areas
• 17.1 Dehcho Region
• Revised Plan May 2006
• 17.2 Beaufort Sea/Mackenzie Delta
• Beaufort Sea Strategic Regional Plan of Action by
  March 2007
• 17.3 Gwichin Regional Plan of Action
• 18.1 Ongoing implementation and review

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Regional Plans of Action (2)

• 18.2 SGP Regional Plan of Action
• Removed working draft from December 2002
  documents
• Multi-Project Environmental Monitoring Agency
  (MPEMA) to replace three existing
  project-specific bodies for diamond mines
• Nunavut Resource Centre

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Traditional Knowledge

• 19.1 Support of TK projects (e.g., training,
  capacity building)
• ESRF Technical Advisory Group on TK possible
  research
• Funding for community-based projects as part of
  the NWT Cumulative Impact Monitoring Program
• Dene Nation TK/IK Centre of Excellence,
  University of Denendeh proposal
• 19.2 Evaluating recommendations of recent
  workshops
• 19.3 Inclusion of TK in CEAM Framework and
  decision-making
• 19.4 Full, effective participation - ?
  integration of TK in environmental and resource
  management
• Participation in design and management of NWT
  CIMP and Audit, NWT CEAM Strategy and Framework

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Community Organizational Capacity Development

• At community level but also organizations
  (government and non-government)
• Promote measures to include communities directly
  in CEAM and ? capacity to participate
• 20.1 Review / refine needs, prepare strategies
• 20.2 ? community funding to identify / implement
  capacity development opportunities
• 20.3 Evaluate successful models and best
  practices
• 20.4 Education, training and mentorship
• 20.5 Enhance capacity for social, cultural and
  economic CEAM
• 20.6 Lobbying/communication re capacity

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In Summary

• Blueprint - comprehensive approach to
  strengthening assessment and management of
  cumulative effects
• Practical, achievable short-term actions and
  longer-term recommendations
• Steering Committee strongly urges Ministers, in
  partnership with all other interested parties, to
  continue to take action to implement and maintain
  CEAM Strategy and Framework everyones
  responsibility