File consists of final drafts of the Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences No. 1127 regarding thermal requirements for Chinook Salmon, written for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
File consists of miscellaneous reports, research material, memoranda and correspondence related to Total Gas Pressure (TGP) research and/or flow analysis research. Includes copies of the following reports: "Influence of Atmospheric Gas Supersaturation on Salmonid Fishes in Relation to Manipulation of the Nechako River through the Kemano Completion Project" by D.F. Alderdice and J.O.T. Jensen; "Synopsis of 1985 Nechako River Salmonid Gas Bubble Trauma Field Studies"; and a proposal submitted to DFO Fisheries Research Branch to study the "Establishment of Total Gas Pressure Criteria for Salmonid Fishes Exposed to Gas Supersaturation in Water" by Don Alderdice and John Jensen.
File consists of Alderdice's handwritten notes regarding various aspects of the Alcan-Nechako River controversy.
File consists of an important memorandum from Alderdice and Jensen to Gordon Ennis regarding a Byrnes and Servizi manuscript on K2 values in the Nechako River. Also includes accompanying notes and memoranda, an excerpt of a report, and graphs.
File consists of copies of Department of Fisheries and Oceans correspondence and memoranda regarding the Nechako River court action with Alcan. Also includes copies of the "Amended Statement of Defence to Amended Counterclaim" for the Attorney General of Canada v. Alcan case.
File consists of copies of Department of Fisheries and Oceans memoranda and other correspondence related to the court action between Alcan and the provincial and federal governments. Also includes a "Summary Report of the Nechako River Working Group" and a copy of the 1987 settlement agreement between Alcan and the government.
File consists of the report "An Analysis of the Kemano Completion Project" by D.F. Alderdice and G.F. Hartman. This document was an exhibit referred to in Alderdice's affidavit for the Nechako court action. Also includes a copy of Alderdice's 1990 resume and a copy of the article "The Sovereign State of Alcan" from a 1983 Telkwa Foundation Newsletter.
File consists of a newspaper article written by Alderdice and Hartman. Includes a copy of the article in its original publication form in The Fisherman newspaper, copies of the article, and annotated early drafts of the article.
File consists of an International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission Bulletin entitled "Prespawning Mortalities of Sockeye Salmon in the Fraser River System and Possible Causal Factors".
File consists of a copy of "Restructuring Research: Survival of the Fittest", an address to Royal Society Members at the University of Alberta on March 25, 1994.
File consists of Alderdice's copy of "Government of Canada Outline of Evidence for the British Columbia Utilities Commission Inquiry into the Kemano Completion Project: Phase 3". Also includes a document entitled "Questions for Mr. Lemon Relating to the Canadian Government Outline of Evidence", likely written by Alderdice.
File consists of a copy of the article, "Is Scientific Inquiry Incompatible with Government Information Control?", which includes a section on the Kemano Completion Project.
File consists of a photocopy of chapter 11 of "Pacific Salmon: Management for People", edited by Derek Ellis and published by the University of Victoria in 1977. The excerpted chapter, written by J.H. Mundie, is entitled "Concluding Remarks: The Problem in its Setting".
File consists of copies of an article from the Canadian Water Resources Journal Vol. 11, No.1, some of which are annotated. Also includes an accompanying memorandum regarding the article.
File consists of "Salmon Studies Associated with the Potential Kemano II Hydroelectric Development - Volume 3: Chinook Salmon Studies on the Nechako River". Annotated by Gordon Hartman.
File consists of "Salmon Studies Associated with the Potential Kemano II Hydroelectric Development - Volume 4: Limnology of Morice Lake" by T.R. Cleugh and B.C. Lawley.
File consists of report entitled "Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) Fry and Smolt Enumeration/Marking Project, Nechako and Quesnel/Horsefly Rivers, B.C." by W.R. Olmsted, P.W. Delaney, T.L. Slaney and G.A. Vigers of EVS Consultants for DFO.
File consists of a copy of an article by Mathur et al. entitled "A Critique of the Insteam Flow Incremental Methodology" from the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Vol. 42.
File consists of a draft regional technical position of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans entitled "Nechako River, British Columbia: Flow Requirements for Fish and Fish Habitat". The paper may have been written by Gordon Ennis. Annotated by Gordon Hartman.
File consists of the second final draft of the "A Report of the Kemano Task Force: Review of the Environmental Studies Report Submitted by Alcan in Support of the Kemano Completion Proposal in Relation to Continued Fish Production from the Rivers Involved". The first final draft of this report was released in August 1987, a second final draft was released in April 1990, and a third final draft in 1994. The Report of the Kemano Task Force was never officially published, although it was made available upon request to the public after 1994. This copy annotated in depth by Hartman.
File consists of an agenda for a weekend conference held May 26-27, 1990 at the Friendship Centre in Vanderhoof entitled "Nechako: A River Worth Saving". Includes Hartman's handwritten notes for a talk he gave at the public session. According to Hartman, "at this meeting, it was made public for the first time that the key DFO scientists did not support the flows established in the 1987 settlement agreement".
File consists of Ableson and Slaney's "Revised Sport Fisheries Management Plan for the Nechako River and the Murray/Cheslatta System". Annotated by Hartman.
File consists predominantly of copied and faxed Department of Fisheries and Oceans memoranda and correspondence from 1986-1989, likely obtained through an Access to Information request from the Cheslatta Carrier Nation. Some items were also used as exhibits in the British Columbia Utilities Commission Kemano Completion Project Review.
File consists of a Cheslatta Carrier Nation publication entitled "The Cheslatta Surrender: A Legal Analysis of a Surrender Given by the Cheslatta Carrier Nation to her Majesty the Queen in right of the Government of Canada on the 21st of April, 1952".
File consists of an original Klohn Leonoff report prepared for Alcan entitled "Kemano Completion Project: Nechako Reservoir Flood Forecasting and Operating Study".
File consists of a December 1993 issue of Harrowsmith (Vol.18:4, iss. 112) that features an article by John Goddard entitled "Sold Down the River" regarding the Kemano Completion Project controversy.
File consists of various versions of the paper by Rublee et al entitled "Development of Fish Habitat in Large Streams as a Mitigative Tool Below Hydro Diversions", which was presented at the 1994 American Power Conference.
File consists of correspondence relating to the British Columbia Utilities Commission Kemano Completion Project Public Review. Includes copied and original correspondence to and from Gordon Hartman; Bill Rich (Alcan); Dr. Gregory Lawrence; Thom Thompson (BC Hydro); LLL&M Barristers and Solicitors (for Alcan); Fraser & Beatty Barristers and Solicitors (for Rivers Defense Coalition); Premier Mike Harcourt; Moe Sihota, BC Minister of Environment, Land and Parks; Brian Tobin, Minister of Fisheries; the Nechako Environmental Coalition; and Robert Pellat, BCUC Commission Secretary. Also includes a list of relevant sections of the Utilities Commission Act for Kemano, an "Order in the Matter of the Utilities Commission Act...and A Public Review of the Kemano Completion Project", meeting minutes for BCUC sessions, the "KCP Registered Participant List", a schedule for a Kemano tour, and copies of related articles.
File consists of an incomplete list of the BCUC Kemano Completion Project Review "A" list of exhibits. Also includes "Exhibit List Part 'B': Public File", which lists documents available in the public file.
File consists of the "Kemano Completion Project Outline" that Alcan prepared for the British Columbia Utilities Commission Public Review of the Kemano Completion Project.
File consists of Alcan's "Outline of Evidence" for Technical Hearing Phase Three: Fisheries (Volume 1) for the British Columbia Utilities Commission Kemano Completion Project Review.
File consists of Alcan's "Kemano Completion Project Review: Information Request No. 2" prepared for the British Columbia Utilities Commission.
File consists of various documents relating to the BCUC KCP Public Review Technical Hearings. Includes hearing transcripts, the "Final Argument of Ben B. Meisner", and correspondence from BCUC regarding the technical hearings.
File consists of "United Fisherman and Allied Workers Union Locals #31 and #37 Brief to the B.C. Utilities Commission" for the Kemano Completion Project Review.
File consists of "Nechako Fisheries Conservation Program Reports: Annual Reports (Volume 1)" prepared for the British Columbia Utilities Commission Public Review of the Kemano Completion Project.
File consists of "Nechako Fisheries Conservation Program Reports: Monitoring - 1991 (Volume 4)" prepared for the British Columbia Utilities Commission Public Review of the Kemano Completion Project.
File consists of "Nechako Fisheries Conservation Program Reports: Monitoring - 1992 (Volume 5)" prepared for the British Columbia Utilities Commission Public Review of the Kemano Completion Project.
File consists of "Nechako Fisheries Conservation Program Reports: Applied Research - 1993 (Volume 5)" prepared for the British Columbia Utilities Commission Public Review of the Kemano Completion Project.
File consists of "Nechako Fisheries Conservation Program Reports: Remedial Measures - 1993 (Volume 6)" prepared for the British Columbia Utilities Commission Public Review of the Kemano Completion Project.
File consists of a list of persons involved in the Alcan Kemano controversy and an accompanying letter encouraging the need for a review of the affair.
File consists of a copy of a report entitled "Provincial Economic Impact of KCP Construction" prepared for Alcan.
File consists of Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences No. 2245 by T.G. Brown et al. entitled "Availability of Juvenile Chinook Salmon to Predators Along the Margins of the Nechako and Stuart Rivers, B.C.".
File consists of a March 7, 1995 speech entitled "Statement by Brian Tobin, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, in Response to the Report of the Fraser River Sockeye Public Review Board".
File consists of drafts of Hartman's "Restructuring Kemano: Open the Process Up, Mr. Harcourt" and accompanying correspondence. Includes related newspaper clippings regarding the BC-Alcan Framework Agreement of July 1995.
File consists of an original "Report of the Nechako Environmental Enhancement Fund Management Committee". Also includes a summary of the report entitled "Moving Ahead: Summary Report of the Nechako Environmental Enhancement Fund Management Committee" and a NEEF "Summary of Results of Studies by Triton Environmental Consultants and Klohn-Crippen Consultants".
File consists of a reprint of Hill and Irvine's article from the North American Journal of Fisheries Management entitled "Standardizing Spawner Escapement Data: A Case Study of the Nechako River Chinook Salmon".
Photograph depicts a view of Nechako River near junction of Stuart River.
Photograph depicts a view of lot 912 near Nechako River.
Image depicts a cutbank on the Nechako River in Prince George, B.C.
Collection consists of records related to the Alcan/Kemano project on the Nechako River circa 1980-2000 from the Nechako Neyenk'ut Society, the Rivers Defense Coalition, and the Smelter Study Group.
Burgener, Louise