Michael Miltenberger

Mr. Chairman, the intent right now is to get a northern-based supplier. There is a project on the books that was funded by private money slated for Enterprise that is looking at churning out 60,000 tons of high quality pellets with the capacity to ship them across the North. As Mr. Bromley pointed out, there are local opportunities, should that be of interest or possible, to be done at the community or regional level. We did have a pilot project out at Checkpoint Charlie by Simpson. It was just one pilot. I would say it had modest success. That opportunity is there, but right now the one big...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We are confident that we have quite a comprehensive list. We have built into all our discussion the recognition that there’s always a possibility that something has been missed, but we have, over the years, catalogued quite extensively across the North, the many hundreds of various waste sites. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As the government has worked with the community of Inuvik and other stakeholders through a response to the declining and depleted natural gas sources around Inuvik, one of the alternatives that came up as a viable option was liquid natural gas. NTPC has been engaged in a lot of work, talking to suppliers, doing the numbers, looking at transportation costs, looking at the cost per gigajoule landed in Inuvik versus other substances like the propane air mixture that’s currently provided, for example, or diesel, which is the most expensive. So there’s been work in that...

It would be my intention, our intention, to have these various sites in communities decided on before the end of this fiscal year so we are ready to roll as quickly as we can.

I share Mr. Bromley’s concern about dragging dollars into the end of the fiscal year when you can’t realistically spend them. We want to be able to get this money into use and into the communities as quickly as we can, so we are going to target to the end of this fiscal year, which gives us just a little over six weeks. Thank you.

That average is based on actuals. On this page, the only actuals we see are 2011-2012. So there are two other years of actuals but the actual number isn’t listed. All we’ve listed here are the mains and revised estimates. Thank you.

Mr. Chair, that work is being done. The Member is correct; it’s not just the liquid natural gas, but it is going to be the cost and the impact of shipping it up by diesel-fuelled trucks. When that work is concluded, we will share it with committee. Thank you.

Mr. Chair, we are concluding the front-end work on the electronic waste piece and we are going to be moving to implementation. I would suggest in 2014-15, we probably would be making reference to that where there would be some initial preliminary work at the planning level, but the focus for the next year or year and a half is going to be to get the work done on the electronic waste off from paper into reality. Thank you.

[Microphone turned off] …the intent of the motion. We just finished about six months of work on the business plan, and that’s not to say that there’s no time when a good idea doesn’t make sense. But it is into the final hours as we try to manage ourselves through the times we’re in.

I’ve also heard, across the floor, a number of MLAs speaking strongly against the subsidy they would have in place to cushion the rate shock of the increases as the Power Corp catches up to having five years or four years of no increases in their fuel costs. So if the Members opposite all said collectively that they...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I would like to thank my colleagues for their thoughtful comments and feedback. I would like to start by just trying to bring a number of pieces together here. There were questions and concerns raised about what’s happening to the environmental landscape around us with the changes at the federal level and what that means to us. What are we doing to fill in? How are we going to manage our affairs in spite of that?

At the same time, we are working on devolution to take over land, water and resource development.

Then there is the concern raised about transboundary waters...

I’ll commit to give it a serious relook. It’s been a number of years and I know the Member has been a passionate advocate of that particular issue. So I’ll take another look, now that we’ve had some time to look at the costs and the money that’s available, and I’ll report back to committee. Thank you.