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To many Canadians, the Giant gold mine in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories represents scandal and mass murder, stemming from the 1992 deaths of nine replacement mine workers in an explosion of a bomb set by disgruntled striking miner Roger Warren.
But for federal government project managers and construction remediation specialists, the $900-million Giant Mine Remediation Project is a job of tremendous scope and complexity, with five distinct components, a 13-year consultation process already logged and a project construction and monitoring timeline that will last a full century into the future.
And now the project has a construction manager. In February, Parsons was selected by the federal government to provide construction management services over two phases, responsible for site care, maintenance and emerging risks and then managing planning efforts over the next two years as the actual remediation process gets underway in 2020.
Natalie Plato, Yellowknifebased deputy director of the remediation project for Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, provides key government oversight on an ambitious plan that aims to contain or minimize the effects of arsenic trioxide contamination and return much of an 870-hectare site to its original state. "It's an incredibly interesting...