What does MVRMA stand for?

As such, the Crown agreed that it owed a duty to consult the KTFN, and undertook a consultation and review process in accordance with the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act, R.

Handley also said regulatory boards have been working for a year towards creating a single pipeline regulatory regime in the Mackenzie Valley in line with the requirements of the National Energy Board, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, the Inuvialuit Final Agreement and the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act.

Although the Environmental Assessment Process under the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act takes a frustratingly long time, the fact that five Environmental Assessments on various aspects of the Prairie Creek Project have been undertaken by the Review Board, together with an earlier assessment by DIAND under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, means that a significant amount of environmental assessment work has now been completed in great detail on the Prairie Creek Project, and with the participation of government agencies, First Nations, non-governmental organizations and involving public meetings and hearings and indeed judicial reviews, and makes Prairie Creek one of the most extensively environmentally studied mining and exploration projects.