Transcript 061113-SEMC presentation Jericho EIS

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Jericho Diamond Project
Josh Gladstone
Technical Advisor
Nunavut Impact Review Board
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Purpose of Presentation
To describe the Jericho Socio-Economic Impact
Statement
To provide my own observations about the EIS
and how it may fit into a monitoring program
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Jericho EIS: baseline VSECs
Baseline information is provided for the Kitikmeot
Region and all 7 (5+2) communities.
The following VSECs are described:
Demography
Employment opportunities
Contract and business opportunities
Education and training
Crime
Community health (and wellness)
(Economy)
(Housing)
(Community services and infrastructure)
(Government)
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Jericho EIS Predictions: Summary
Moderate
Employment opportunities
Moderate
Education and training
Moderate
Contract and business
opportunities
Moderate
Community health
Moderate
Crime
Minor
Demographic impact
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Jericho EIS Predictions: Employment
Residents of the Kitikmeot will fill:
50% of management positions
60% of skilled positions
90% of the semi-skilled positions
60% Inuit employment by 2009
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Jericho EIS Predictions: Workforce
Projected Workforce by Year of Operation
Number of Employees
200
150
Total Work Force
100
Number of Nunavummiut
50
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Year
After Robert Hornal & Associates Ltd 2003
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Jericho EIS Predictions: Workforce
Jericho will attract employees from the communities
Full time employees from communities will be
reluctant to leave their current jobs
The permanent positions in the plant and on the
catering team will be the most attractive
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Jericho EIS Predictions: Workforce
72 jobs represent 4% of the workforce of the
Kitikmeot, therefore the magnitude of the impact
will be medium
Duration of some of the jobs will be 3 to 9 years or
long term
Skilled and semi-skilled positions account for 95% of
the jobs to be filled
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Jericho EIS Predictions: Workforce
Impact on the workforce will be moderate and:
Certain
Continuous
Medium in magnitude
Year round
Regional
Medium-term duration
Reversible
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EIS Predictions: Education and Training
The majority of skilled and semi-skilled positions will
come from the Kitikmeot
Additional training programs will be necessary in the
communities
It will take longer to train the Nunavummiut
employees in the plan
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EIS Predictions: Education and training
Training and education are certain and:
Continuous (mine site) / intermittent (community)
Year round
Medium in magnitude
Will likely involve residents from all Kitikmeot
communities
Non-reversible
Moderate in impact
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EIS Predictions: Contract and Business Opportunities
The probability of providing contracts and business
opportunities is certain and will be:
Year round
Medium in magnitude ($34 million operating costs)
Long term
Reversible
Moderate in impact
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EIS Predictions: Community Health
Availability of jobs adds to youths’ self worth and can
reduce the potential for suicide
New money can provide families with snowmobiles
and hunting equipment
New money can increase the consumption of store
bought alcohol
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EIS Predictions: Community Health
The physical health of Kitikmeot residents should be
little impacted by the development of the mine
“Consultants hope that some of the revenues flowing
to government will be directed towards health
delivery”
New money can provide families with snowmobiles
and hunting equipment
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EIS Predictions: Community Health
New money can increase the consumption of store
bought alcohol
The cash flow from the new jobs may help some
families purchase a new home in their
community
In migration should not be a factor in increasing the
number of units required
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EIS Predictions: Community Health
There will be little impact on traditional hunting,
fishing and trapping activities
Advantages and disadvantages of fly-in/fly-out jobs is
found under Tab 6 of your binders
Community leaders believed it was better to have the
choice to work for the mine than not to have the
choice
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EIS Predictions: Community Health
Impacts to community health will be moderate and:
Infrequent (family, not community impacts)
Low in magnitude
Year round
Regional
Reversible with support from community and
company
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EIS Predictions: Crime
The probability that incidents of crime may increase
with increased disposable income is moderate.
The increase will be:
Medium in magnitude
Year round
Regional
Reversible
Moderate in impact
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EIS Predictions: Demographic Change
In-migration may occur
Increased population may stress services (e.g
housing, schools, medical)
Impact due to in-migration is not likely to occur
Intra-regional migration will be negligible
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SEIA: Observations
Impact assessment:
fair synopsis of potential impacts
gives us clues about possible information sources
includes potential positives
no link to baseline information
weak rationale for significance
difficult to judge relative significance of impacts
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SEIA: Observations
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SEIA: Observations
Mitigation measures:
no clear link to the impact assessment
no adaptive management strategy
may provide leads for future management options
not assessed in Annual Report
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Indicators: Demography
Sources of demographic information include:
• GN Bureau of Statistics
• GNWT Bureau of Statistics
• Statistics Canada
Indicators include:
• Population
• Percent change (in population)
• Age of population
• Ethnicity (Aboriginal, non Aboriginal)
• Gender
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Indicators: Economy
Wage Economy
Employment from government
% workforce employed by government sector (hamlet, GN
departments, feds)
Service sector (including tourism)
Number of Inuit owned firms
Employment through service sector
Number of visitors
Revenue from tourism
Mineral exploration and mining
Total exploration expenditures
Revenue to territory/region/community
Employment through exploration
Total Income
Average income through tax returns
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Indicators: Economy
Government transfer payments
Income support
Subsidies
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Subsistence harvesting
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Total wages from subsistence harvesting by species
Total income from harvested resources
Replacement value of harvested food
Percent population participating in subsistence activities
Production per hunter
Total harvesting yield by community
Culture, tradition, society…?
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Indicators: Employment, Education and Training
Employment
Community and regional labour force
% in labour force
Number wanting job
Unemployment rate (by ethnicity)
Mine employment
Number of employees by community/region
Days worked total/per employee
Earnings total/per day/per employee
Number employed in tech/service/admin etc
Residents valuing jobs in the community vs. jobs on mine
site (see SEIA p.4-2)
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Indicators: Employment, Education and Training
Education
Residents with grade nine education
Residents graduated
Graduation rate
Number of students enrolled
Student capacity (number of students)
Number of classes taught in Inuktitut/Inuinnaqtun
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Indicators: Employment, Education and Training
Training
Spaces by program/community
Age of participants
Graduation rates
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Indicators: Community Health and Wellness
Health Care
Infrastructure
H&SS budget
Number of workers by community
Services offered (health and social services)
Health issues
Shortage of care professionals
Tobacco use
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Indicators: Community Health and Wellness
Social Issues
Unemployment
Housing
Private dwellings, housing units, people per unit
Teenage pregnancy
STIs
Adoption
Abortion
TB
Number of two parent families
Shelter availability and use
WCB claims
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Indicators: Community Health and Wellness
Crime
Total crime rate vs national average
Per capita sexual assault
Prison location and capacity
Restorative justice programs
Suicides while incarcerated
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Indicators: Community Health and Wellness
Mental health
Suicides rate (by ethnicity)
Robustness of family life
Ties to community
Connection to the land
Rates of alcohol/substance abuse
Number receiving treatment outside their home community
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Indicators: Community Health and Wellness
Dental health
Expenditures on dental health
Deft/DMFT
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Indicators: Community Services and Infrastructure
Transportation
Description of infrastructure
• Communications
• Description of infrastructure
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Indicators: Government
Total revenues
Total expenditures
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Anything missing?