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Thank you, Mr. Chair. It’s been a good discussion. I’m not sure; I guess I would like to reply to Minister Miltenberger’s comments there. I don’t want to repeat everything. I think the obvious gains, the win-win-wins are clear here. This is not news to the Minister, so I know he is not surprised. We will be looking forward to how we can get this in the budget.
The Minister claims that people here are speaking against the subsidy. Clearly, that is not the case. There is a history here. The 16th Assembly, against the wishes of many of us, made some really bad decisions and left us with the...
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise today to mark the sudden passing of Dr. Clyde Hertzman. Clyde Hertzman became well known to NWT health professionals and educators through his role as an advisor to this government in the development of the first Early Childhood Framework. He has since been a continuing resource and inspiration to our territorial early childhood community. Dr. Hertzman was with us only last month at the Early Childhood Development Round Table in Yellowknife. I know many Members were there and Ministers, where, with his usual high energy and discerning understanding of his...
I move that this committee strongly recommends that the Government of the Northwest Territories identify additional funding to implement a program to replace electric hot water heaters with fuel-fired hot water heaters in communities that depend on thermal generation of electricity. Thank you.
Much appreciated and I’m sure my passion is a reflection of what I’m hearing.
I’d like to move now to a question that’s come up before and the Minister is aware of this. In terms of the Solar Strategy, NTPC has a standby charge that completely destroys the economic feasibility of solar, unless you own the facility, solar installations that are 10 kilowatts or greater. I know the Minister is aware of this, but are we going to fix that this year? Is that considered to be part of the work plan for this budget? Mahsi.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I did want to cover a couple more areas here. First of all in the area of electronics implementation, electronics recycling implementation planned for this year, it sounds like we have an agreement with Alberta. How is this going to work and what parts of the territory would that cover? Would we start with sort of the large regional centres? Where are we at with this? Was there a fee to recycle, a plan for recycling electronics, or is this an economic proposition that we’ll actually make dollars from this? Thank you.
I’m still not sure I see the numbers there, but it looks like we’ve got quite a reduction in revenue from the last year that we had an actual, which was the year before the current fiscal year. We are just about at the end of this fiscal year and a revised estimate of $450,000… I will leave it at that so we can move on. It seems curious. Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I see a drop there of a couple hundred thousand dollars in the Environment Fund net revenue. Perhaps the money has been put into the e-waste program or something. Could I get an explanation why the drop in revenue there?
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Has there been a community or location chosen yet for the smart grid part of that, do we know?
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thanks to the Minister. I also did speak to the CEO and he expressed extreme frustration with the department. I am sure there are frustrations on both sides. I would ask the Minister to direct his staff to get down to it and just getting to it. Will the Minister commit to getting those dollars out the door early in the next fiscal year for early childhood development? Thank you.