Working Towards Reconciliation Through Mine Remediation: Lessons learned from Yukon’s Faro Mine Remediation Project

Kim Redies
CEO
Dena Nezziddi Development Corporation

Geoff Karcher
Director, Faro Mine Remediation Project
Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada

Jeff Mackey
Director General - Contaminated Sites Branch – Northern Affairs Organization
Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada
Contaminated site cleanup is essential to the long-term health of First Nations residents in Canada’s arctic. The Faro Mine was abandoned in 1998 after the project owner declared bankruptcy and extensive remediation efforts have been ongoing since 2009. Topics of discussion will include:
- Providing an overview of CIRNACs contaminated sites remediation program in the North and how projects are being leveraged to benefit local First Nations
- Reviewing how the Faro Mine Remediation Project is being planned and structured to benefit the Ross River Dena Council and Kaska Nations
- Hearing Lessons learned from the Faro Mine and how Dena Nezziddi Development Corporation (DNDC) is leveraging the remediation to benefit Ross River.
- Understanding how DNDC and CIRNAC are looking to the future and toward creating a successful roadmap that could be applied at other sites in the Yukon and Territories