High level feedback themes we’ve heard:
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Consultation and Engagement
- Request for ongoing consultation and engagement
- Consultation fatigue with other projects going on in the area and requests from different government agencies and proponents
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General / Alternative Routes
- Questions and concerns about who would be permitted to use the road and potential to develop along the new road.
- The source of the aggregate required to build and maintain the road
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Socio-Economic
- Hope to maximize economic development opportunities for local employment and social opportunities
- Assess the increased hunting and fishing pressure as a result of the road
- Concerns expressed by some remote tourism outfitters that road will increase access and impact their operations
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Environmental Effects
- Cumulative or long-term effects
- Effects to wildlife
- Effects to caribou migration
- Effects to peatlands
- Effects on streams, rivers and lakes
- Effects on fisheries
- Effects on moose
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Field Studies
- Consideration of water courses and wildlife
- Would like to have findings of field studies shared
- Involvement / review of water related information
- Interest in caribou field study results when they become available
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Indigenous Knowledge and Indigenous Land and Resource Use
- How can Indigenous Knowledge and western science be combined?
- Need to engage community Knowledge Keepers
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Challenges Communities are Facing During COVID-19
- Emergencies and community crises, due to the pandemic or other ongoing issues
- Inability to bring communities together for in-person events and meetings
- Not enough staff / capacity to help proponents
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