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Int'l Association for Impact Assessment
Western & Northern Canada Affiliate
2215 19th St. S.W.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2T 4X1
(403) 245-6404    IAIA-WNC@praxis.ca
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Dr. Carl Schwarz, SFU:  Environment Impact Assessment - the top 10 statistical aspects. Wednesday, October 13
at 1 pm.  Live in Vancouver with simultaneous audiences in Edmonton, Victoria and Yellowknife!

The Hon. John McKay, MP:  Bill C-300 and Canada’s International Environmental and Social Mining Practices.  
Yellowknife, NT.  Sept. 10th, 2010

Assessing and Managing Cumulative Environmental Effects:  This major conference was
presented by the International Association for Impact Assessment in Calgary.  Nov. 6-9, 2008.  IAIA WNC
helped plan this, chaired a session at this conference and participated in the final plenary.  Conference
proceedings now available!

Rebecca Chouinard presented Bridging knowledge systems: Two-way talk about mining and regulation in
communities.  Live in Yellowknife with simultaneous audiences in Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver and
Whitehorse!  Dec. 11 2009

Cultural Impact Assessment:  Beyond the Biophysical  Conference in Yellowknife, Feb. 28-29
2008.  Check out our Virtual Conference Proceedings

Training course:  Making Social Impact Assessment Count for Planners and Resource Managers
by Rabel Burdge, U of Washington,  13-14 March, and April 17-18, 2008 in  Vancouver, BC.  

Northern Oil and Gas and the Environment Workshop By the Pembina Institute  March 3rd – March 7th, 2008
Calgary, Alberta

Don Russell and Dr. Anne Gunn presented:  Research and Modeling: Integrating Impacts of Climate Change
and Development on the Porcupine Caribou Herd and Other Barren Ground Caribou. Feb. 20, 7-9 pm in
Yellowknife

The Alberta Society of Professional Biologists  Brown Bag Lunch Seminar on Feb. 23, 2007: Towards an
Alberta Integrated Land Management Program.  Calgary, AB

Pub night in Yellowknife, NT- Nov. 29, 2007.  Theme: Is it even possible for the way we in the North live and
work to be made truly sustainable?  If not, are we simply hypocrites?

The Air and Waste Management Association, Canadian Prairie and Northern Section held a  lunch seminar:
Watershed Management Planning in Alberta - Water Quality Objectives  by Bill Berzins, Chair of Bow River
Basin Council and President of Fossil Water,  Dec. 5th, 2008  Calgary, AB

IAIA WNC Lunch Seminar:  Implementation of Agreements: Consideration of Human Rights and the Cultural
Context.  Kim Doohan, (Mintupela Pty Ltd.) talked about the relationship between huan rights, culture and
mining with an emphasis on how these unwritten aspects of agreements influence outcomes despite the
technical wording of these legal documents. Case study: Argyle Diamond Mine in Australia.  Nov. 13 2008,
Yellowknife NT.
Proceedings
of the IAIA
WNC
conference
on Cultural
Impact
Assessment
Visit our
virtual
conference

From WNC's BC Chapter, in conjunction with CEAA and the BCEAO:
Dialogue on EIA Implementation:  Practitioners' Workshop
April 29, 2010, Vancouver BC

The BC Chapter of IAIA's Western and Northern Canada Affiliate hosted an exciting one-day workshop
for environmental impact assessment practitioners.

The purpose of the workshop was to explore current issues in EIA, including:
-Cumulative effects
-First Nations consultation
-Scoping
-Improving process efficiency

Speakers from the BC Environmental Assessment Office and Canadian Environmental
Assessment Agency  provided context for topics of current interest. Practitioners  discussed topics,
shared insights and provided feedback to the regulators to help improve current practice. This
included networking and discussion among practitioners from a range of areas, including
government, industry, First Nations and consultants.
The International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) announces two symposia in 2010 focused
on impact assessment and climate change:

•        25-26 October , Aalborg, Denmark
•        15-16 November, Washington, D.C.  

Background papers on climate change and impact assessment are available here.


For more information on the program, ways to participate, and to register, please click on the links
below:
Aalborg, Denmark
25-26 October, 2010
Also offering a Nordic Research Day on 27 October
Washington, D.C.
15-16 November, 2010
Also offering a special SEA and Climate
Change course on 17-18 November
Working with Indigenous Peoples as Vital Partners for Successful Ventures
A Luncheon with Guest Speaker Peter Croal, Canadian International Development Agency

Tuesday November 9, 201, 0Glenbow Museum,  Calgary, Alberta
Presented by IAIA WNC and MSES

For the private sector, there are possible three roles when developing natural resources in the vicinity of indigenous
populations. These are:
•        intruder,
•        good neighbour or
•        capacity builder.

Companies that engage indigenous peoples early and well in the extractive process can spend more time on the
business they are in, rather than fighting protracted legal battles in the courts and trying to manage asymmetric public
relations catastrophes.  The combination of climate change stresses plus poorly planned community relationship
building, can make for a flashpoint of tension and potential conflict.  The need for profit and building self reliant and
resilient communities are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they are now at the core of progressive business and
community development models. This presentation will expand on these issues.

For a more detailed synopsis, click here
The BC Chapter of the International Association for
Impact Assessment's Western and Northern Canada
Affiliate (IAIA WNC)  hosted an exciting one-day
workshop on
Adaptive Management and Impact
Assessment
January 12, 2011
What it is, how to do it, when it's useful,
when it's not
Click here for details
Special Workshop:
Perspectives on
“Professional
Reliance”
in Impact
Assessment
Vancouver BC, June
23, 2011
Click here for details
Demystifying the Federal
Environmental
Assessment Process with
Transport Canada in the
Pacific Region
A pilot seminar in Vancouver
June 27th, 2011
Click here for details
Luncheon Seminar:
Confronting controversy
with values:
Lessons for the oil sands
from mining and
nuclear waste management

Tuesday July 5th, 2011, 11:00-2:00pm
MST
Calgary, Alberta
Click for details