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Data-sharing agreement approved

Fort St. James mayor and council have agreed to sign a data-sharing agreement for a major health research project.

Fort St. James mayor and council have agreed to sign a data-sharing agreement for a major health research project.

The agreement has already been signed by both Nak’azdli and Tl’azt’en First Nations, and will help in gathering information for a study being conducted by researchers at the University of Victoria and UBC which will look at before, during and after impacts of mining development on a community.

The study will be the first one they know of in the world to follow a community through the entire life cycle of a mine and the impacts on a community.

The study will also look at possible measures government or local organizations use or put forward  to help mitigate negative social impacts of this type of development.

“This is extraordinarily cutting-edge,” said Kandace Kerr, mining and community health research coordinator for the University of Victoria study.