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with the affected Indigenous communities on Oceans and Environment and Climate Change

all aspects of the project, from site remediation Canada, also have a stake in the outcome of the

planning to managing the project for maximum project.
socio economic opportunities and benefits to

local Indigenous communities. Three Indigenous When the mine opened in 1969, the regulatory
communities in Yukon are affected by the site; the regime was not as robust as it is today regarding

mine complex is located on the traditional territory the environmental and socio economic impacts of

of the Kaska, including the Ross River Dena Council such projects or the requirements for companies to
and Liard First Nation, and it is upstream of the set aside securities for future remediation work. As

Selkirk First Nation. a result, when the site was abandoned in 1998, the
clean-up became the responsibility of the territorial

Project stakeholders include the Town of Faro, the and federal governments. The Faro site had been

Government of Yukon, the Yukon Conservation placed in receivership; care and maintenance of
Society, and the Yukon Environmental and Socio- the site became the responsibility of the Yukon

economic Assessment Board. Other federal entities, government in 2009 and was transferred to the

such as the federal Department of Fisheries and federal government in 2018.

North Fork of Rose Creek Realignment construction area. (Photo Credit - Dave Hrabchuk, Parsons Inc.)

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