Bob Bromley
Statements in Debates
Mr. Speaker, I don’t actually know whether this is the Minister of ENR or ITI, but as I mentioned during my statement, there is zero requirement for development projects, large industry, to provide even 1 per cent of their energy requirements from renewable energy or to offset, and no compulsory requirement to gradually wrap that up to increasing amounts to address the climate change issue. Is the appropriate Minister working on getting that legislation in place?
That’s fine, thank you.
As my colleague Mr. Hawkins has said, every day is Environment Day, and today is the last day of the recognized week called Environment Week.
I'd like to mention the tailings spill at Ekati Mine. Apparently, a large overflow of a contaminant wall — about 4.7 million litres of contaminants — spilled onto the tundra and the lakes where, of course, we have lake trout, grayling, whitefish, and so on, and the whole ecosystem, right from the invertebrates up to the migratory birds, and eventually to where we consume and where we get our energy from for our bodies.
Investigations are ongoing to...
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Apologies here. I have a question on 5-10.
Thank you, Mr. Krutko. I'll turn now to Mr. Jacobson.
Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. We’ll take that into consideration. If you’ll just now deliver your general comments. I believe this has been discussed in committee. You probably missed that session, but I will take that into consideration and ask you to continue with your comments.
Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. I’ll turn to the Minister, but I think we’d agreed we were going to try to give our full general comments and let the Minister respond. So after this — is everybody agreed with that still?
Thank you, Mr. McLeod. The wish of committee…. Sorry. General comments. Mr. Hawkins.
Page 6-15. We’re agreed. Moving on, page 6-16, information item, Directorate, Active Positions. Questions? Mr. Robert McLeod.
Thank you, Minister Lee. Mr. Cummings.