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Need: Annual Report info Copy of Monitoring Report. Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting. Socio-Economic Monitoring and the Jericho Diamond Project Josh Gladstone Technical Advisor Nunavut Impact Review Board. Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting. Purpose of Presentation
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Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting Socio-Economic Monitoring and the Jericho Diamond Project Josh Gladstone Technical Advisor Nunavut Impact Review Board
Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting • 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
Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting • 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)
Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting Jericho EIS Predictions: Summary • Employment opportunities • Education and training • Contract and business opportunities • Community health • Crime • Demographic impact Moderate Moderate Moderate Moderate Moderate Minor
Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting • 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
Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting Jericho EIS Predictions: Workforce After Robert Hornal & Associates Ltd 2003
Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting • 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
Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting • 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
Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting • Jericho EIS Predictions: Workforce • Impact on the workforce will be moderate and: • Certain • Continuous • Medium in magnitude • Year round • Regional • Medium-term duration • Reversible
Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting • 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
Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting • 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
Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting • 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
Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting • 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
Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting • 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
Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting • 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
Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting • 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
Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting • 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
Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting • 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
Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting • 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
Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting • 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
Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting SEIA: Observations
Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting • 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
Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting • 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
Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting • 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
Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting • Indicators: Economy • Government transfer payments • Income support • Subsidies • Subsistence harvesting • 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…?
Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting • 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)
Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting • 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
Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting • Indicators: Employment, Education and Training • Training • Spaces by program/community • Age of participants • Graduation rates
Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting • 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
Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting • 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
Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting • 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
Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting • 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
Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting • Indicators: Community Health and Wellness • Dental health • Expenditures on dental health • Deft/DMFT
Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting • Indicators: Community Services and Infrastructure • Transportation • Description of infrastructure • Communications • Description of infrastructure
Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting • Indicators: Government • Total revenues • Total expenditures
Socio-Economic Monitoring Committee Meeting Anything missing?