Wally Schumann

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We are working on it and hopefully we'll be able to present it to the Members later this summer. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. First of all, the road from Niven to the Explorer is safe, otherwise we probably wouldn't have it open. So the road is safe. We are doing a planning study, looking at what we are going to do to upgrade a couple of sections of that road. This is something that I have had conversations with just lately. We are working with the developer on his access to the new hotel that is across the highway from the Legislative Assembly. We are also in ongoing discussions with the city of Yellowknife. All of us are working together trying to come up with a plan of what we are going to do...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. ENR has been engaged with Nunavut on issues of protection of caribou during calving and post-calving. GNWT and ENR is a registered participant in the Nunavut Planning Commission process for developing a Nunavut Land Use Plan. During the technical meetings up this point, the GNWT has put forward the position that in this industrial activity of any type including mineral exploration, production, construction of roads, pipelines, and other infrastructure should not be permitted on the calving areas. ENR staff participated in NPC technical meeting specifically on the...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We'll get back to the Member within one week. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. If there's an issue with the other ferries, which we've had some issues in the past year, but most of the time we can service them on a timely basis where interruption of service is not a great deterrent. Where the ferry is presently parked, the Merv Hardie, it's a Coast Guard base, and it's a safe location and out of the way from any type of vandalism or anything like that. So we're quite comfortable leaving the ferry right where it is. So thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just so we can make some clarity on some stuff, the AIF portion of the ticket will be going towards capital for the airport, and the other fees will be going towards O and M of the airport. To explain to the department why we're doing this, part of this is the fiscal situation that the GNWT is in, and this was one of the opportunities to raise some revenue. It's been looked at for a number of different Assemblies, and with the fiscal challenges that we are facing here lately, this was an opportunity for us that we thought we would bring this in to help offset some of the...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The fibre optic line. I had the opportunity to go out there, and it is not a very wide right-of-way that they produced. We would, at the appropriate time, if the funding came available, we would obviously want to have a look at accessing that portion of the right-of-way as much as we could. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Not for this purpose it's not shown that way, but that's how we come to these expenditures on region by region. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That's an initiative that would be taken on by our Public Works and Services and NTPC, and I suspect that, moving forward, they will be contacting our department to see, you know, what will we be doing to meet the demands if the LNG was put into Fort Simpson. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I guess for clarity, if it's a return ticket going to Edmonton and back you only get charged a $20 fee. If you're going within the Northwest Territories, it's a $10 fee no matter if it's a return ticket or a one-way ticket. Thank you, Mr. Chair.