NWT Environmental Audit:

The NWT Environmental Audit is an independent review at least once every five years of:

• the health of the environment
• the effectiveness of the NWT CIMP
• the effectiveness of land, water, and waste regulation, and
• responses to the recommendations of previous audits.

The audit is required by the Sahtu, Gwich'in and Tlicho final agreements, and by the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act.

The terms of reference for the initial audit were developed by the NWT CIMP and Audit Working Group, and form the basis of the Statement of Work for the auditor.

The first NWT Environmental Audit has been completed and was submitted by SENES Consultants to the Minister of INAC on December 23, 2005. The first-ever NWT Environmental Audit Report was publicly released in June 2006, along with a Supplementary Report on the Status of the Environment.

A number of other documents are available:

• NWT Environmental Audit Presentation, September 29, 2006
  (PDF - 215KB)
• Plain-language NWT Environmental Audit Brochure, 2004
  (PDF - 617KB)
• Terms of Reference for the NWT Environmental Audit, April 2004
  (PDF - 83KB)
• Announcement of the NWT Environmental Audit, December 30, 2004
  (PDF - 16KB)

For more information, please contact the Audit Sub-Committee Secretariat at: