Bob Bromley

I guess maybe we pulled another $2 million so we’re up to $4 million now. Good to know that that figure is public. I guess when I build a house or take on a project, I like to know what the full cost is for it. You know, I might build it in stages but...I’m just looking for what the full cost of the reconstruction of the Dettah road is. There’s, I believe, 11 kilometres there. I’m pretty sure that work’s been done, but if not, perhaps that could be done. Perhaps I could request that that be done. Will the Minister commit to getting that information?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I’d like to follow up from my Member’s statement with the Department of Transportation Minister. Specifically, on the Dettah road, we’re very happy to see that project going forward and some funds committed this year. Just towards completion of the entire project, what’s needed...I’m wondering if the department has a cost estimate for reconstruction of the entire Dettah road. Thank you.

I appreciate the response. I understand the comments from the Minister. Perhaps there is not an estimate of what the future cost will be that are not yet accounted for in this proposal. I am wondering whether any of these that are accounted for with the $9.348 million are Commissioner’s land that is leased to other holders other than GNWT. Are all of these environmental liabilities on Commissioner’s land that we actually are off-buying ourselves?

Finally, Mr. Speaker, and thanks again for the response. The opportunities in biomass even affect the review of the ATCO proposal, and the Premier mentioned that proposal. Consideration of selling off our Power Corporation, of course, has been largely because of costs of electricity. We are pretty convinced that there are some opportunities for reducing those costs and at the same time, increasing or enhancing our local economies and, so, reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Yes, just for confirmation, will the Premier commit that even the review of the ATCO proposal, to the degree that it’s...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we learned that the Europeans are very progressive in the area of energy. They bundle heat and power and even broadband and combine them in their utilidor systems emanating from their heating and power plants. Municipal and regional governments provide this service and so does some private enterprise and, really, we’re overdue to recognize that our NWT Power Corporation, our arm’s-length fully owned corporation, needs to be thinking of things like this.

My question is, again, for Minister Roland. We’ll keep him busy today. Basically, will the NWT Power...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As mentioned, my colleague Mr. Krutko and I just returned from a fact-finding trip to Denmark, Sweden and Finland...

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…on behalf of the Joint Committee on Climate Change. The work was in recognition of the need to reduce territorial greenhouse gas emissions and to reduce our cost of living. Our goals were to learn about the technologies that Scandinavians have developed to economically produce heat and electricity and organic material on a neighbourhood to small community scale, to determine whether this technology and practice is potentially applicable in the...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have the list in front of me. It is listed by department. May I assume, then, that if it is just a department listed and not another entity, that if it is just a GNWT department, that it is, in fact, a GNWT facility that is on that land and it is not leased out to others? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I notice that $9.348 million for environmental liabilities. We are playing catch-up, but I think we are learning how to treat the environment properly. I understand that this is also only part of what our liabilities are that we will be hearing more in the future. Is the Minister assured that we will be taking care of these liabilities so we don’t accrue these sorts of costs in the future, taking care of the environment?

Secondly, is there any kind of estimate of what we can expect for costs the next time around on this same line item, the environmental liabilities...

I appreciate that response and I’ll assume that the answer was yes, the mandate of the review, or the review will include the mandate of the Power Corporation, unless the Minister corrects me.

Will the review of electricity rates also include biomass and -- it’s sort of associated with that -- is there any expertise being offered to the review panel or the expert panel in that area? Thank you.

I’d like to recognize Baptiste Foisey, who is…Many people have seen migratory birds returning; we also have our students returning. So welcome back to Baptiste. I’m told he will be on the job today.