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Welcome to the Mackenzie Valley Review Board's New Website!

We are delighted to introduce you to our revamped website, designed to provide an improved and seamless experience.

What's New:

  • Modernized Interface: Enjoy a fresh, intuitive design that makes navigation effortless.
  • New Public Registry Features: Explore our new public registry for the latest information.
  • Personalized Subscriptions: Subscribe to specific projects, news releases, and preliminary screening updates.
  • Improved Performance: Experience faster load times and optimized browsing across all devices.
  • Enhanced Security: Your data is protected with our upgraded security measures.

How to Access the New Public Registry:

To access the public registry, click the button below:

Public Registry

  • Explore Listings: Browse through the registry for detailed information on our projects.
  • Explore Categories: Browse by project, document listing or timeline.
  • Search Functionality: Use the search bar and advanced filters to find specific entries quickly.

How to Subscribe to Projects and Screenings:

  • Subscribe:
    • Use the subscribe button to add your email and receive notification about new documents for a project.
    • Choose to subscribe or unsubscribe from a specific project.
    • Existing subscribers from the Online Review System can also log in to the site to manage subscriptions.
  • Online Review System Dashboard:
    • Login using the Login with MVRB ORS button at bottom left of the home page.
    • Go to my account.
    • Manage and view subscriptions and comments.

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The Review Board is updating its Guideline for Assessing Impacts on People

 

About the Guideline

  • Considering impacts on people and well-being is a core component of the Review Board’s mandate in environmental assessment. 
  • The Review Board is updating its Guideline (formerly known as the Socio-Economic Impact Assessment Guidelines) to better reflect a holistic approach to considering impacts to the social, cultural, economic, and well-being of the people of the Mackenzie Valley. 
  • After initial work in 2019/2020, the Review Board is reinvigorating this update process, starting with community consultation and engagement. 

 

Understanding our process

  • The Review Board began work to update the Guideline in 2019 but had to pause the project due to COVID-19, the subsequent disturbance associated with wildfire evacuations and other operational considerations.
  • We are committed to continuing this work and are now re-starting our public engagement on the guideline update process. The figure below shows what we've done so far.
  • In past engagement and in the environmental assessments we’ve conducted, we have heard that social, cultural and economic impacts are interconnected. 
  • Impacts on people are not felt in silos. Social, cultural, and economic impacts should be assessed holistically.

 

Next steps

Building on the work we've done so far, our next steps include:

 

The Review Board sent out a Notice of Process in April 2026 for these ongoing updates and upcoming engagement plans. Please see the "Get involved" section below if you want to learn more.

As required by the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act, we will consult with communities across the Mackenzie Valley for these updates. We will share opportunities for input, discussion, and review throughout the process.

Lasting well-being matters to people. It's an easy concept to understand, but hard to assess. We want to make sure we do these updates collaboratively, to represent what's important to the communities of the Mackenzie Valley.

Resources and key documents

The Review Board has a suite of reference materials, guidelines, and policy documents that work together to explain how we approach assessing impacts during an environmental assessment, including impacts to people, culture, and well-being.  If you'd like to know more, click on the images below to bring you to supporting information. 

Get involved

  • We want to hear from as many people as possible, in many different ways. We plan to host a variety of different engagement sessions, from one on one conversations, focus groups, workshops, and formal consultation sessions. 
  • What does well-being look like to you? Whether it's maintaining harvesting rights, preserving and protecting heritage sites, training and employment opportunities, social structure, health services, or protection of vulnerable populations, we want to better understand what the Board needs to consider during an environmental assessment. 

If you would like to be involved in this process or have any questions, please contact Kate Mansfield (Manager of EA Policy and Planning)