- Wherever practicable, Project plans have considered reducing new disturbance to minimize impact to wildlife, habitat, and migration corridors
- The environmental assessment process through both BC and Canada require assessment of impacts and mitigations to wildlife, habitat, and migration corridors.
- Detailed mitigations, such as speed limits, crossing structures, or offsets will be discussed through the environmental assessment process and further defined during the permitting process.
- For the environmental assessment, NWP has modelled wildlife occurrence using advanced models that look at many factors rather than using simplistic (and occasionally problematic) that only look at habitat suitability. NWP’s models also look broadly enough to understand wildlife movement across the BC/Alberta border.
- NWP is participating in regional initiatives as part of the Elk Valley Cumulative Effects Management Framework.
- Due to the Project location and layout, it will have no direct impact to high elevation grassland ecosystems or Bighorn Sheep winter range.
