Description: Examining the history and legacy of arsenic contamination at Giant Mine, in Canada’s Northwest Territories.
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Examining the history and legacy of arsenic contamination at Giant Mine in Canada’s Northwest Territories. A partnership among researchers at Memorial University, Lakehead University, the Goyatiko Language Society (a Yellowknives Dene First Nation non-profit), and Alternatives North (a Yellowknife environmental and social justice coalition).
Examining the history and legacy of arsenic contamination at Giant Mine, in Canada’s Northwest Territories.
The Toxic Legacies Project is a response to the Canadian government’s Giant Mine Remediation Project to freeze arsenic underground in perpetuity, a project that has recently undergone an extensive environmental assessment. As a “Partnership Development” project (funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council [SSHRC]), we also aim to communicate our research results in a way that will engage the community of Yellowknife and the broader concerned public.