Transcript 12 Socioec Robert Hornal.ppt

Socioeconomic Impacts and Assessment
Presented by: Robert Hornal,
Robert Hornal & Associates
The Presentation
Two key areas:
•Assessment and Impacts
•Inuit Impact Benefits
Agreement
The Socioeconomic Assessment
•Collected statistical data from all
Kitikmeot Communities
•Reviewed notes from Tahera’s meetings
with the communities since 1996
•Reviewed Tahera’s project description
•Assessed the economic consequences
of the project using the Diavik model
The Socioeconomic Assessment
•The Jericho Project is a small mining
project
•It will generate an average of 97 person
years of employment for nine years
•The total work force will vary from 179 to
57
Number of Employees
Projected Workforce By Year
200
150
100
50
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
Year of Operation
Total Work Force Number of Nunavummiut
7
8
9
The Socioeconomic Assessment
•36% of the construction costs will be
spent in the North
•43% of the operating costs will be spent
in the North including 65% of the salary
dollars
Construction Costs
(millions of dollars)
30
25
20
Millions $ 15
10
5
0
NT
World
Rest of Canada
Operating Costs 2006
(millions of dollars)
18
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
NT
Canada
World
Why Socioeconomic Analysis?
•Kitikmeot residents want improvements to their
quality of life through the creation of jobs, long
term employment, training and educational
opportunities, business opportunities and
improved community well being.
•These improvements must come with no loss to
the land and resources that have sustained the
communities over time.
Benefits To Kitikmeot
•Jobs
•Training
•Contracts
•Inuit Impact Benefits Agreement
Impacts:
•Employment-Moderately Positive
•Training-Moderately Positive
•Business Opportunities-Moderately
Positive
•Community Health –Moderate
•Crime-Moderately Negative
•Demographics- Minor if at all
Tahera’s Commitments
•Will strive to reach a goal of 60% Inuit
employment within 5 years
•Will encourage contractors to meet same
Inuit employment standards
•Will transport Inuit employees directly from
their home communities to the mine site
•Will set up a monitoring committee to work
with the communities to mitigate negative
impacts and maximize positive impacts
Inuit Impact Benefit
Agreement (IIBA)
•Negotiations conducted between Tahera
and a KIA appointed negotiating
committee
•An agreement in principle was reached
for the IIBA in early December 2003
•Agreement in principle has been
approved by the KIA Board of Directors
•KIA will be presenting IIBA to Kitikmeot
communities
Inuit Impact Benefit
Agreement (IIBA) – General
Provisions
• Mitigation of socio-economic impacts
– Commitment to training, education,
employment and business opportunities
• Compensation
– For implementation, land access and
potential impact on Inuit Water Rights
• Monitoring Measures
– Establishes implementation committee
Summary
•The Jericho Diamond Project will impact
the Kitikmeot communities but with the
proposed mitigative measures and the
IIBA these impacts will likely to be positive
and there will be in place mechanisms to
monitor and adjust these impacts.