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You're Invited: Public Information Night
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 | Auditorium, Northern United Place, Yellowknife

Join us for a Public Information Night—a free, family-friendly drop-in event open to all. This science-fair-style evening is your opportunity to learn more about the project and contribute to a collaborative visual narrative about the Giant Mine site created by local artist Alison McCreesh.

📅 Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2025
🕕 Time: Drop in anytime between 6:00 – 8:30 PM
🎤 Don’t miss the live panel discussion with project partners at 7:00 PM
📍 Location: Auditorium, Northern United Place, 5403 Franklin Avenue, Yellowknife

What to Expect:

• Meet the CRMP team
• Learn about our goals, technical progress, and what’s ahead for the project
• Explore a locally inspired interactive visual narrative
• Join an open conversation on climate change, mine closure, and adaptation
• Sign up to participate in future workshops or working groups
• Activities available for all ages!

🍪 Light snacks and refreshments will be served. The venue has asked that we not use bottled water for the event so please bring a reusable water bottle along!

About the Project:

The Giant Mine Oversight Board (GMOB), in collaboration with RFS Energy and Dr. Nicolas Brunet’s research group at the University of Guelph, have embarked on a three-year project supported by funding from Natural Resources Canada’s Climate Change Adaptation Program. The project seeks to build climate change adaptation knowledge and capacity in mine closure and perpetual care planning among mining professionals, decision-makers, rights-holders, and others. In particular, the Climate Ready Mine project team wants to understand if and how the various components of mine closure plans can be assessed for their adaptive capacity and resilience to the long-term impacts of climate change. In developing a closure plan assessment tool, the team’s hope is to facilitate and support the adoption of climate resilient strategies in the mining industry. With Giant Mine and current remediation efforts (GMRP) as a real-world example, the team will be working closely with the community and organisations in Yellowknife to co-develop these tools in ways they hope can be meaningful.

No registration is required, but we’d love to know if you’re planning to attend. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/public-information-night-drop-in-community-event-tickets-1376626951269 
For questions about the event or accessibility requests, please contact us at aarisha@rfs.energy

We look forward to seeing you there!