Environment

Local Environmental Administrator (L.E.A.)

Johnny Cooper Jr.

Assistant L.E.A.

Jackson Ottereyes

Mission

To ensure the Environmental and Social Protection for the people and/or community of Waswanipi.

Goals and Objectives

To have protected area for our community, Bio-diversity Park

To amend and enforce our Environmental By-laws within the community.

Keep monitoring the safety of our drinking water. (Asst. LEA)

Responsibilities:

Environmental Monitoring- Drinking Water, Management of Waste disposal sites, Ground water monitoring& Environmental Status reporting.

Environmental Assessment and Approval of Projects-Review of Major Projects subjects to an Environmental and Social impact Assessment, Approvals and Permits Under the By-Law Concerning the Protection of the Environment & Environmental Site Assessments.

Environmental Compliance-Routine Inspections and Enforcement.

Environmental Emergency Response

Note: A regional Environmental Administrator was appointed by the CRA. Responsibilities of the Local Environmental Administrator may alter but not to a great extent.

On-going Projects

We are still dealing with the Mine spill in Chapais in 2008. We have done samplings along the rivers affected.

We collect water and fish samples that are analyzed in Montreal. We have been working with the C.R.A. who coordinates the project and Genivar who collects the data.

The other project is our Proposed Bio-Diversity Park we plan to submit to the Province of Quebec.

We are at an early stage as of now, but we plan to have a draft of the proposal as soon as possible. We have good technical support from the C.R.A. and from C.B.I. (Canadian Boreal Initiative).

Jonathan Kitchen is coordinating this proposal under contract.

And, of course, we still have our water monitoring in the process.

Contact

Johnny Cooper Jr.

Tel. (819) 753-2587
Fax (819) 753-2555
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