Weledeh

Statements in Debates

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 44)

Thank you, Mr. Jacobson. Again, committee we are on general comments of Environment and Natural Resources. Anybody for general comments? Mr. Yakeleya.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 44)

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Minister Miltenberger.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 44)

Thank you. We are on page 13-26, Environment and Natural Resources, activity summary, wildlife, grants and contributions, contributions, $1.069 million.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 44)

Thank you. We will start with Mr. Ramsay.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 43)

Thank you, deputy minister, for that. I am aware of those programs. Those are good programs. I am thinking in a much more modest level here of simply the electrical appliances. I am sure the Minister knows that, in the last few years, efficiencies of appliances, washing machines and so on, you name it, have been so effective that the power demands for those appliances have decreased often in the order of one-quarter or one-third of the original what we might have seen five or eight years ago. But I don’t know if I have ever seen anything that indicates we know what appliances are in our houses...

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 43)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’m wondering if I can get an update on the extra-special capacity building efforts we had this fiscal year; where we’re at with that and if that’s going to be extended into 2011-12. Thank you.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 43)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate the Minister’s comments again here. I think I will look forward to that work. Basically what we need to be doing is determining here what gains can be achieved with this move. That is the responsibility of this Minister at this moment in time so we can use this tool appropriately and responsibly. Does the Minister agree that the standards we have for the GNWT that allow us to benefit so much should be available and made available to all members of the Northwest Territories for all infrastructure? Mahsi.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 43)

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Actually, Mr. Krutko asked most of the questions I was going to ask. I was particularly concerned about the 315 additional contract services, especially given that we do have staff that are supposedly specialized in this area. I think one of the things we are finding quite strongly on this side of the House is that we are continually contracting out more and more of our work when we hire top of the line professionals and put them to managing instead of delivering. I think that is a frustration certainly to many people in the Northwest Territories, possibly even to our...

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 43)

Mr. Speaker, the Minister is the lead Minister here for this strategy and participants. They’ve held workshops. Participants have brought forward these very measures. They have said we need better energy efficiency standards and building energy efficiency standards provided as a tool in this Greenhouse Gas Reduction Strategy. Is the Minister proposing to include that and what work is he doing to measure what that will get us in greenhouse gas reductions? Thank you.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 43)

Last question, again I’m wondering what the mechanism is for capturing those lessons. Presumably some of them could be transferable to other regions and communities. Is that something that’s passed along through the NWT association, for example? I’m wondering what the mechanisms are for that.