Bob McLeod

Our bookings are up by 5 percent and the revenues still don’t cover the cost of the contractors, because at one time we were looking at privatizing all of the parks but we weren’t able to do it. Thank you.

Yes, I do, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The kinds of things we’re talking about are that northern regulators would conduct the review of applications for authorizations and complete any requirements for hearings or consultations once the proponents conduct additional route alignment studies and detailed engineering. Technical expertise on the regulatory mitigation approaches to addressing air quality, waste management, hazardous materials management, spills planning, and environmental planning issues associated with oil and gas and pipeline construction activities will be required to handle the workload...

The draft Hydro Strategy was released approximately two years ago and we expect to have a finalized Hydro Strategy in 2011.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I haven’t been approached by anybody from Deline to assist with funding for a caribou hunt and the increase in CHAP funding was done with the understanding that what we wanted to do was help reduce the high cost of food, ensure that the benefit was equitable and transparent to all communities in the Northwest Territories, reduce economic disparities between large and small communities and it should be consistent with land claim obligations where these exist. The CHAP program was developed to assist harvesters and communities throughout the Northwest Territories and so...

I wanted to clarify before I left with Mr. Bromley, he had asked me a question in his general comments about revenues. I didn’t have a chance; I forgot to address it in the response. I just wanted to indicate that the main reason for the reduction in the revenues was that we reduced the interest rates that were charged by the Business Development Institute of Canada while the economy was in a downturn for two years, so that is why the revenues dropped in that area. I just wanted to add that in. Thank you for your indulgence.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Most of our revenue from parks we work out arrangements through the parks operator and it’s sort of like on a commission basis and I think that’s why it doesn’t show up on the revenue sheet. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Yes, we do, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. All that information is available in the public domain. We also put on open houses where if anybody wants to understand how it works, we’re very pleased for anybody who is interested to come in and show them how it works, show them all the information we collect. The geosciences information that comes through the NTGO arrangements we have with the federal government. It’s all there, it’s all available to the public.

With regard to evaluation, if what’s seen to be required would be for us to hire a consultant and to do an evaluation I’m sure we could do that.

With regard to the hydrokinetic project in Fort Simpson, the project started this summer. It was designed to produce 14 to 15 kilowatt hours per day and it was only producing at four or five. There was some problem getting it to work at maximum efficiency. The deflectors that were in place weren’t designed to deal with deadheads, I guess they call it; those trees that are submerged and float just below the surface. It came and it moved the hydrokinetic...