TABLE OF CONTENTS

21. Employment and Business

21.1 Existing Environment

21.1.1.1 Labrador North Coast
21.1.1.2 Other Areas of Labrador and Newfoundland

21.1.2 Environmental Assessment Boundaries

21.1.2.1 Labrador North Coast
21.1.2.2 Other Areas of Newfoundland and Labrador
21.1.2.3 Administrative Boundaries
21.1.2.4 Technical Boundaries

21.1.3 Methods
21.1.4 Existing Conditions - Labrador North Coast
21.1.5 Existing Conditions - Other Areas of Newfoundland and Labrador

21.1.5.1 Upper Lake Melville
21.1.5.2 Eastern Labrador
21.1.5.3 Labrador Straits
21.1.5.4 Western Labrador
21.1.5.5 Labrador
21.1.5.6 St. John's
21.1.5.7 The Province

21.1.6 Likely Future Conditions

21.1.6.1 Labrador North Coast
21.1.6.2 Other Areas of Newfoundland and Labrador

21.2 Environmental Effects Assessment

21.2.1 Factors Affecting the Distribution of Employment and Business Effects

21.2.1.1 The Project as a Commute Operation
21.2.1.2 Labour Market Qualifications
21.2.1.3 Business Supply Capabilities and the Nature of the Contracting Process
21.2.1.4 Benefits Commitments

21.2.2 Employment and Business to Date
21.2.3 Estimates of Economic and Social Environmental Effects

21.2.3.1 Employment and Income: Methodology and Assumptions
21.2.3.2 Employment and Income: Newfoundland and Labrador
21.2.3.3 Labour Force
21.2.3.4 Business
21.2.3.5 Aboriginal Peoples
21.2.3.6 Women
21.2.3.7 Demography

21.2.4 Cumulative Environmental Effects

21.2.4.1 Proposed Projects
21.2.4.2 Labrador North Coast
21.2.4.3 Upper Lake Melville
21.2.4.4 Labrador, St. John's and Other Areas of The Province

21.2.5 Optimization of Environmental Effects

21.2.5.1 Labrador North Coast
21.2.5.2 Other Areas of Newfoundland and Labrador

21.3 Residual Environmental Effects

21.3.1 Construction
21.3.2 Operation
21.3.3 Decommissioning and Post-Decommissioning
21.3.4 Accidental Events
21.3.5 Monitoring and Follow-up

21.4 References

Appendix 21A Census Statistics
Appendix 21B Employment and Business Effects Labrador Communities
Appendix 21C Relative Effects
Appendix 21D Impact Assessment Synthesis Valued Ecosystem Component: Employment and Business


LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 21.1 Labrador Regions and Communities
Figure 21.2 Total Direct, Indirect and Induced Employment
Figure 21.3 Total Employment, Labrador
Figure 21.4 Direct, Indirect and Induced Employment, Labrador
Figure 21.5 Total Employment By Region, Labrador
Figure 21.6 Regional Employment (Construction), Labrador
Figure 21.7 Regional Employment (Open Pit), Labrador
Figure 21.8 Regional Employment (Underground), Labrador



LIST OF TABLES

Table 21.1 Education Levels of Respondents to Training Needs Assessment Survey, North Coast Communities, 1997
Table 21.2 Exploration Activity and Employment Newfoundland and Labrador 1990-1997
Table 21.3 Major Employers (with 20 or More Employees in 1986) in Happy Valley-Goose Bay 1986 & 1992
Table 21.4 Assumptions Adopted in Allocationg Direct Employment
Table 21.5 Total Employment and Income - Newfoundland & Labrador
Table 21.6 Total Employment and Income - Labrador
Table 21.7 Total Employment and Income - Labrador North Coast
Table 21.8 Total Employment and Income - Upper Lake Melville
Table 21.9 Total Employment and Income - Western Labrador
Table 21.10 Total Employment and Income - Other Labrador Regions
Table 21.11 Total Employment and Income - Mine Site
Table 21.12 Selected Project Labour Force Environmental Effects, Newfoundland and Labrador
Table 21.13 Selected Project Labour Force Environmental Effects, Labrador
Table 21.14 Selected Project Labour Force Environmental Effects, Labrador North Coast
Table 21.15 Selected Project Labour Force Environmental Effects, Upper Lake Melville
Table 21.16 Selected Project Labour Force Environmental Effects, Western Labrador
Table 21.17 Potential In-Migration by Phase, Nain
Table 21.18 Potential In-Migration, by Phase - Happy Valley-Goose Bay
Table 21.19 Potential In-Migration by Phase - Labrador City/Wabush
Table 21.20 Demographic Changes, Selected Labrador Communities 1971-2001
Table 21.21 Summary of Residual Environmental Effects