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A sliver of a $50-million cash injection for Canadian mining announced on Monday will go toward guardian training associated with the NWT’s Prairie Creek project.
Natural Resources Canada used the Toronto’s PDAC mining and exploration convention to announce new funding for 32 projects across the country.
The Naha Dehe Park Corporation, formed in 2023 to co-manage the Nahanni National Park Reserve and local guardian programs, will receive $150,000 of that money.
The cash will pay for the training of guardians to work along the Prairie Creek Access Road, the federal government stated in a news release.
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Prairie Creek is a planned zinc mine northwest of the Dehcho community of Nahanni Butte, which is the home of the Naha Dehe Park Corporation and the Nahʔą Dehé Dene Band.
The corporation “will undertake capacity-building activities through environmental guardian training to support the monitoring of environmental impacts associated with the construction of an all-season access road to the proposed Prairie Creek mine,” the federal government stated.
Multiple northern Indigenous governments are attending this week’s PDAC convention in a bid to pursue new deals and attract investment.
The Tłı̨chǫ Government and Demco – the Denendeh Exploration and Mining Company, a 100-percent Dene-owned firm developing a mine near Great Bear Lake – are among attendees.
