Wally Schumann

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That's right. It's $142,000. The increase relates to an interdepartmental reallocation to fund the fulltime occupational health and safety specialists and an area corporate services clerk for Hay River. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So this will be a new collection station, which we don't have right now on the north side of the lake. Once this thing is established, we can have fishermen fishing out of, particularly out of, Yellowknife, to access the zone on this side of the lake and be able to contribute to the new power strategy going forward. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Nothing's stopping any of these people to reach out to us and see if we would be willing to assist them to do that. There are our regional offices that they can approach for support to do that. My concern on this initiative, as I've said: let's take the Liard Basin for an example. Petronas has walked away from the LNG plant on the west coast. There seem to be significant challenges on getting this product to market, not just for us but for all of Canada.

The commodity price went from $11, at one point, down to $1.90. It's fluctuating in a zone there where it's very...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. These numbers are done on a quarterly basis. We based the royalty forecast referred by the Diamond, Royalties and Financial Analysis Division. The model uses the mining regulations, uses historical data and forward-looking information from companies based on publicly available information, forecast changes in the market, and mine plans change including rough diamond prices and foreign exchange. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. My understanding is that the South Slave outfit is not asked to sign a contribution agreement with us when presented with them. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The regulations that we want to come forward in the MayJune sessions, the regulations have not been updated for a long time; we want to be able to make this change so that they can use that going forward. As far as the program review and the operations of that, we don't need to have that done to be able to do that, so they can continue to operate. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

I am not going to get into a debate about 140 in Georgetown again. We had that conversation last year. The resident that is there, his father was moved previous to that situation. Someone else moved back into a location that has a troubled area, particularly with climate change flowing in that area, but we will continue to monitor 140. If it becomes an issue with safety, being a priority on our highway system, we will have a look at it. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

In the department, we have our permafrost experts and our engineers monitoring these areas, particularly kilometre 213, to come up with a longterm solution.

Last year, the Member asked me about the Yukon using heat traces, and I am glad to say that, at these four sites at kilometre 213, we will be purchasing heat traces to install at that location. Our contractors are out there diligently trying to keep the road safe for everybody, and, like I said, they have steamed these culverts. Everything is flowing as they should be, and we will continue to monitor the situation.

The main purpose for installing renewables and alternative energy is to stabilize the cost of power, reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that we are all working towards, and protect residents from future fluctuations of commodity prices of diesel fuel. Even with that, it has to be noted that we need to have diesel backup in these communities, and the government is committed to converting these plants as much as possible with the backup system in place. We are also committed to covering the mental costs of doing this in the communities so that the emerging and renewable power projects moving...

The yearly subsidy has remained approximately the same over the last five years. It has fluctuated a bit year to year, but it is very close.