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Records date from 1998-1999 and concerns the department's evaluation and assessment of the Environmental Assessment report produced by the Diavik Diamonds project.

This accession consists of records of the Industrial Initiatives division of the Department of Resources and Natural Resources ( RWED, later the Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment (ITI)), particularly relating to diamond mining (Diavik, BHP, De Beers) and the Mackenzie Gas project. Other projects and locations featured less prominently include the Can Tung Mine, Bathurst Inlet, Lupin Mine, and Paramount Resources (Cameron Hills). The records include meeting material from the Diavik Communities Advisory Board, meetings of various groups related to the Mackenzie Gas Project Socio-Economic Agreement, Deputy Ministers' Pipeline Steering Committee, and Mackenzie Valley Development Project Working Group, briefing material (including briefing notes from other divisions in RWED), speaking notes, grants and contributions policies and procedures, and reports, including Socio-Economic Monitoring Agreement status reports, annual Communities and Diamonds reports, and Economic Accounts 1987-1996.

The accession consists of records from the Wildlife and Fisheries division of the Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development relating to the environment assessment and monitoring of the Diavik Diamond Mine. The records include reports, correspondence, meeting notes, presentation slides and speaking notes from public meetings, a draft Diavik Environmental Agreement, wildlife impact linkage diagrams, reviews, comments and responses, and records of the GNWT-Diavik Working Group and the Environmental Monitoring Advisory Board.

This accession consists of records from the Policy, Legislation and Communications division of Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development and its predecessor, the Department of Renewable Resources, relating to forest management, Metis harvesting rights, and an environmental agreement with BHP Diamonds Inc. The records include a department overview, legislation and regulations, policies and directives, briefing material, correspondence, feedback, notes, a legal opinion, a FMB submission, a workplan, excerpts from the RWED Operations Manual, An Overview of Forest Management in the Northwest Territories, Forests for Tomorrow discussion paper, a decision paper, an assessment report, Forest Management Policy - chronology of development and review, a procedure for Forest Management Application Processing, presentation slides, court decisions, meeting notes, an environmental agreement and implementation protocol, and news items and reference material.