Levels of Land Use and Development Activity in the NWT

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General Information - Current and Potential Activities

NWT Business Portal
Includes fact sheets on NWT economy and specific industries, links to government information and business associations (Chamber of Commerce, NWT Business Coalition)

Economic Development Strategy Documents
Common Ground. Report of the NWT Economic Strategy Panel, June 2000. Securing Our Future - GNWT Response to the Economic Strategy Panel Common Ground Strategy. GNWT, December 2000.  Not available online - contact GNWT Industry, Tourism and Investment.
Towards A Better Tomorrow: A Non-Renewable Resource Development Strategy for the NWT.  GWNT, November 2000.

Land Use Planning
Gwich'in Land Use Planning Board - approved plan
Deh Cho Land Use Planning Committee - plan under development

Other 
Aboriginal Communities and Non-Renewable Resource Development: State of the Debate Report.  National Round Table on the Environment and the Ecnonomy, June 2001.

Specific Land, Air, and Water Uses and Impacts

Human Settlements, Population, and Infrastructure
NWT Bureau of Statistics - Community Profiles
GNWT Municipal and Community Affairs
NWT Association of Communities
NWT Water Quality Database - Community Drinking Water Quality

Transportation
GNWT Department of Transportation - Airports Division
GNWT Department of Transportation - General Information (including highways)
Canadian Coast Guard 
Transport Canada
NTCL (Northern Transportation Company Limited) - Shipping
NWT Trucking Association - no website

Minerals
GNWT Minerals Oil and Gas
GNWT Diamonds
DIAND NWT Mineral Development Division
Northwest Territories Geoscience Office
NWT and Nunavut Chamber of Mines

Oil and Gas
Oil and gas production statistics - GNWT
GNWT Minerals Oil and Gas
DIAND Northern Oil and Gas
DIAND NWT Petroleum Development and Benefits Division
DIAND NWT Pipeline Readiness Office
Northwest Territories Geoscience Office
Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers
Canadian Energy Pipeline Association

Power Generation and Transmission
GNWT Energy Strategy
NWT Power Corporation
Arctic Energy Alliance

Renewable Resource Harvesting
GNWT ENR Wildlife Division
Wildlife Management Advisory Council (NWT) - Inuvialuit Harvest Study
Fisheries Joint Management Committee - Inuvialuit Harvest Study 
Gwich'in Renewable Resource Board - Gwich'in Harvest Study
Sahtu Renewable Resources Board - Sahtu Harvest Study

Outfitting - Guided Hunting and Fishing
NWT Arctic Tourism

Tourism
GNWT Tourism
NWT Arctic Tourism

Forestry and Forest Fire History
GNWT Forest Management

Agriculture
Territorial Farmers'Association

Climate Change and Greenhouse Gases
Government of Canada Climate Change website
GNWT Environmental Protection Division - Climate Change Program
Northern Climate ExChange
C-CIARN-North - Canadian Climate Impacts and Adaptation Research Network - North

Contaminants and Contaminated Sites
DIAND - Northern Contaminated Sites Program
DIAND - Northern Contaminants Program (NCP)
Treasury Board of Canada - The Federal Contaminated Sites and Solid Waste Landfills Inventory
GNWT Environmental Protection Division - Hazardous Substances and Waste Management Programs
GNWT Environmental Protection Service - Hazardous Materials Spill Database
DIAND NWT - Giant Mine Project (Arsenic Trioxide Management)

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