#187
Year
Recipient
Timothy Bailey Edwards
Amount
$2,500
In designing a post-remediation landscape on Giant Mine, outside Yellowknife, NWT, I will be examining how design can help bridge the gap between goals and outcomes in mine closure. The significance of meeting environmental and socio-economic goals in minesites in the North, and around the world, can not be understated. Orphaned and abandoned mines litter Canada’s three territories, with various degrees of hazard, and more are set to be built. Right now, mine closure activities are firmly considered engineering exercises. In creating this project, I will help make a case for the involvement of landscape architects in mine closure projects.