Wally Schumann

Thank you, Mr. Chair. For the community of Paulatuk, our eighth plane-load just took off this afternoon to Paulatuk for commodity and goods. The fuel resupply will commence when we are done the dry goods. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. As I have stated in previous questions, we are talking millions of litres of fuel. It does not make sense to build a Synchro Lift in Inuvik. We already bought an existing facility. The majority of the fuel comes on the railhead to Hay River. The railhead does not go to Inuvik, as far as I know, unless I am missing something.

We are talking 40 to 50 million litres a year. You start trucking that up to Dempster, the wear and tear, the safety issues, the environmental issues that come with that, the costs associated with that, I don't even have to do an analysis on it; I know...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We have talked a little bit about these double-hulled barges in my statement, about the funding that we secured with the federal government for the $19.5 million and had questions on our contribution.

The one nice thing about these, for the people that didn't get to attend the MTC opening in Hay River, we actually had a picture of the barges, and I think we actually have some of the drawings, and maybe I will commit to bringing them to our briefing as well so that Members can get a better understanding of these new designed barges. They are going to be able to haul all...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. On my left, I have Vince McCormick, the Director of Financial Administration. On my right is deputy of Infrastructure, Paul Guy. On our far right is Brian Nagel, Director of Infrastructure and Business Solutions. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The Member is kind of all over the place there. First of all, we need to pursue some of this private work. If we don't pursue some of this private work that's out there, the cost with running this operation would be enormous. I don't think the Member would like to see $5 a litre in the communities because, if all of a sudden, you shrink your market to where it's half the size of what you have and you continue to have a fixed cost to run this operation, the costs are going to be horrendous.

We are operating this asset exactly the way and pursuing revenues just like the...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. As I have said earlier in my questioning, I said we were going to do a regional contingency plan on the Department of Infrastructure to help mitigate these extreme events, and that is where we would probably have a look at this. That is why we are having a look at the Beaufort region, and I have committed that we are going to do that. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Mr. Speaker, I wish to table the following documents entitled "Northwest Territories Environmental Studies Research Fund - Annual Report and Budget 2017-2018" and, pursuant to Section 98 of the Petroleum Resource Act, "NWT Oil and Gas Annual Report 2017." Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We can certainly commit to developing a longer-term five-year business plan and having those discussions, and I will be able to update committee once we have that work done. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I am going to need him to repeat his question.

I will have to check with the department to see exactly how we could do that, and I can certainly get back to the Member.