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42 MINING FOR CLOSURE
4.2.2 the canadian noami
programme
Significant works are being undertaken in Canada
to deal with contaminated mining sites and aban-
doned/orphaned mine sites (OAMs in Canadian ter-
minology). Tremblay (2005) reports that Canada’s
long history in mining has resulted in more than 10
000 orphaned or abandoned sites that require vary-
ing degrees of rehabilitation and that the National
Orphaned/Abandoned Mines Initiative (NOAMI)
was established in 2002 in response to a call from
the various Canadian Mines Ministers.73 It was de-
sired that that a multi-stakeholder advisory commit-
tee be set-up to study various issues and initiatives
concerning the implementation of remediation pro-
grams across Canada. NOAMI is now a co-operative
programme guided by an Advisory Committee that
is sourced from the mining industry, federal/pro-
vincial/territorial governments, environmental non-
government organizations and First Nations.
Five groups have been formed since the initiation
of NOAMI to address challenges in the following
key programme areas:
Information Gathering;
Community Involvement;
Legislative Barriers to Collaboration;
Funding Approaches, and
Guidelines to Legislation Review.74
The programme has already achieved notable out-
puts and NOAMI has completed several studies
including a review of funding models and com-
munity involvement. Further, work is ongoing with
guidelines for jurisdictional legislative reviews
with respect to collaboration, liability and funding.
The work aims to ensure that approaches across ju-
Table 2 Pathways to influence important Stakeholders: The PMA
Influencing measure typology
Coercion
Utilitarian measure
Capacity building
Normative
Description of modality
measures involving force or co-
ercion such as laws, regulations
and so forth
measures supplying some form of
material or fiscal incentive (and/
or disincentive). These can in-
clude subsidies, taxes, tax-breaks,
and so forth.
measures increasing the capacity
of actors to act upon opportuni-
ties, understand issues, to physi-
cally conduct processes, and so
forth.
measures stimulating evolution
of views held regarding what is,
socially responsible, acceptable,
valid and so forth.
Manner in which apparently addressed or implied
New legal instruments to overcome historical
stumbling blocks
Creative financial mechanisms to release funds
from diverse sources
networks to transfer ideas, knowledge and tech-
nology
promotion of inventive engineering and biological
technological solutions
Developing demonstration models
Convening & facilitating workshops
Unconventional partnerships – involving both the
public and private sectors, and non post-mining
regenerators
to promote much wider adoption of current good
practice in integrated closure
optimise engagement between mining sector
stakeholders
a network to transfer ideas, knowledge and tech-
nology globally and deliver action locally
Unconventional partnerships – involving both the
public and private sectors, and non post-mining
regenerators
Benchmarking good practice
73. Mining is generally regulated at the provincial level, although
the federal Government maintains most of the responsibility for
mines in northern Canada (north of the 60th parallel).
74. All reports generated by NOAMI are now available from www.
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