Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question today is on the energy alliance program, directed to the Minister of Public Works and Services. The program, as mentioned, is a good one, wellreceived in the communities, and I would like to know what currently the department is doing in this fiscal year on the program deliverance to the communities of the Sahtu? Thank you.
Minister of Public Works and Services.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yes, we agree. The Arctic Energy Alliance is a great program for the communities in the Northwest Territories. We are currently updating all the energy profiles of the communities of the Northwest Territories. They were last done in 2010. Over half of them are done, and they will be posted in the coming month here, hopefully. Within this next calendar year, we will finish up the rest of the communities on the community energy profiles. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
I welcome the reply to that question. My next question, Mr. Speaker, is: having completed the updated plan there from the last one referenced in 2010, which is seven years ago, when that updated energy plan per community could be -- if I can get a copy of that as well, if it can be provided?
As I said, the ones that are done are going to be posted here shortly and the rest of them in the coming year, but I can get the specific ones to the Member's community, for the Sahtu, if they're completed already. I don't know if they're in the list that's not completed, but if they're done I will get them done.
I guess the other thing that I want to mention that we're working on this year, too, is Arctic Energy Alliance is working community energy plans, and there are two communities that are doing that right now. We're working with Fort Providence and Aklavik; this is an CanNor-funded project. At the conclusion of this, these two project communities will be identified energy projects that they want to undertake and it will be for a sum of $400,000 that will be split between the two communities.
My final question is: once these engagements are under way in developing the community energy plan, will the community leadership be approached and have some input to the community energy plan?
The two that we're working on, as I just mentioned, Fort Providence and Aklavik, we'll be working with the communities. We're hoping in the future that we're going to get some more federal funding to commit to do more community energy plans in the future, so we'll be pushing that, but also as part of our energy public engagement that we're doing presently, we are also asking invited participants as well as the public that come to our meetings about the Arctic Energy programs and services and how they can be improved as well. So that's another avenue for people to reach out in the communities on how we improve this.
Thank you, Minister. Member for Sahtu.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I was referring to the questions earlier for the Sahtu communities, not somebody else's riding. Thank you. If I can get the questions to that, energy plans for the Sahtu communities? Thank you.
I think there's some confusion. Right now we're doing community energy plans, like I said, for the community of Fort Providence and Aklavik. That's an energy plan. The other ones that we're currently trying to finish up in the Northwest Territories is the community energy profiles for all the communities, and that is the ones -- the Sahtu community is done, I will be able to give the Member from across.
Thank you, Minister. Oral questions. Member for Yellowknife Centre.
