Michael Miltenberger

As has been pointed out by the Minister of ITI, after April 1st we will be the regulator and he will be the Minister responsible. The NEB’s existing policies and guidelines will stay in effect and the work that we are doing, in terms of reviewing fracking as a government that we’ve been looking at now for a number of months, will come forward sometime after April, that will look at improving upon what is currently there. But in the meantime, the National Energy Board policies and filing guidelines are what will be the policies of the day. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We have focused the attention of the Environment Fund folks on the current recycling plus expanding into electronic waste. On our to-do list are things like barrels and vehicles. I was just mentioning to the deputy, I remember in Fort Smith last summer they came into the South Slave, I’m not sure if they made it to Yellowknife, but they came into town and we had mountains, literally, of fridges and stoves and washers and dryers and they shredded it all up and put it into cubes. I think they did Hay River as well. I’m not sure if they came to Yellowknife. But they didn...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As we conclude the Department of ENR, I would just like to ask this Assembly to join with me to thank Ms. Magrum for her years of service. This is her last witness table. That’s her last budget book.

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I would just like to thank her for her service. She’s professional, she’s very, very knowledgeable, as you can see, and I’d like you to join me to wish her a very happy retirement. Thank you for your service.

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We have an ongoing commitment to work with all the communities in terms of making sure their FireSmart Program is put into effect. In communities, for example, in the early parts of the fire season if fire crews are not busy, they can work on that and they have done that in many communities, help with firebreaks. We have staff that can assist with the design. So, yes, we are prepared to work with communities to see how we can advance those critical initiatives.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. When I look at ’14-15, I see $3.889 million versus $3.6 million from ’13-14. So it’s gone up incrementally right from ’12-13, so I’m not quite sure what the Member’s question was.

I listened to many issues raised in the Member’s statement and his questions and his interest in getting a lot of detailed information, so I’ll take that question as notice. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It’s a gentleman by the name of Mr. Andrew Applejohn.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My note here says the Milk Container Program was added February 15, 2010.

Mr. Speaker, I wish to table the following two documents, entitled “Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 4, 2012-2013,” and “Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 4, 2013-2014.” Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Yellowknife South, that Bill 12, Northern Employee Benefits Services Pension Plan Act, be read for the second time.

Mr. Speaker, this bill sets out the legislative framework for the continuation of the Northern Employee Benefits Service Plan as a multi-employer, multijurisdictional pension plan for employees of approved public sector employers in northern Canada.