The Sahtú Land Use Plan's ("SLUP") 5-Year Review Amendments are in effect as of June 7, 2023. The 5-Year Review Amendment addendum was adopted by the Sahtú Land Use Planning Board ("SLUPB") on May 31, 2021. It received sequential approval by the Sahtu Secretariat Incorporated (July 9, 2021), Government of the Northwest Territories (June 6, 2022), and Government of Canada (June 7, 2023), in accordance with Section 43 of the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act (MVRMA). With approval, as per Section 46 of the MVRMA, bodies having the authority under federal or territorial law to issue licences, permits, or other authorizations relating to the use of land or waters or the deposit of waste, shall carry out their powers in accordance with the land use plan.
To download the updated Sahtú Land Use Plan (2023), please select from the following links. The main land use plan is included under "Volume 1", while the mapping protocols, methodology, and physical limits zone descriptions are included in "Volume 2".
The shapefile for download (available under the "Request File(s)" menu) displaying this zoning is available.
Supporting Documents
In addition to the SLUP, there are three documents that support the Plan. Their purpose is to further illustrate the Board’s intent with respect to plan development, implementation guidance, and future planning steps. For clarification, they were not part of the Section 43 MVRMA approval process. As living documents, they will be updated as needed by the Board.
- Implementation Guide (2024)
- Implementation Guide (2023) - Archived
- Background Report (2022)
- Plain Language Summary (2022)
Rules of Procedure
The Board adopted the SLUPB Rules of Procedure on October 23, 2014.
Monitoring and Evaluation Framework
- Monitoring & Evaluation Framework
- Sahtú Land Use Plan Annual Monitoring Report 2020/21 (posted November 1, 2021)
- Sahtú Land Use Plan Annual Monitoring Report 2021/22 (posted August 4, 2022, correction October 2022)
- Sahtú Land Use Plan Annual Monitoring Report 2022/23 (posted July 17, 2023)
- Sahtú Land Use Plan Annual Monitoring Report 2023/24 (posted August 28, 2024)
Strategic Plan
Sahtú Land Use Plan's Vision
As described in S. 1.5 of the SLUP, considerable work was completed with Sahtú communities and planning partners to identify a vision for the Sahtú Settlement Area. Participants were asked to identify their vision for the land, five years, and a hundred years in the future. The results of this work were compiled in a report called Building a Vision for the Land (2000). Four main themes were identified, and are presented in the following four videos.