Bob Bromley

Thanks to the Minister for that. I know the Minister is aware of the situation. Maybe getting away from infrastructure a little bit, so cack me if you must, Mr. Chair, but what we’re trying to do I think here is address the problem as much as possible through some infrastructure improvements. Is that going to do it, or are there other things that are needed that will change the behaviour of the users of the park parking lot?

Mr. Speaker, I would also like to recognize a Lifeguard for Lodune, Kimberly Galbaransingh. Welcome, Kimberly. I would also, as always, like to recognize Tony Whitford, our illustrious man of many hats. I would also like to recognize Vanessa Rankin and all of the social students who are here today. Mahsi.

Thanks for that additional information. I’m sure Mr. Heath has a target date, but I can assure him that that target date for me, over the last seven years, there’s been quite a change in starting dates. Most recently was that we would be hearing the cost estimate for this project laid out in detail in September and here we are almost to November. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Over the next few years, the people of the Sahtu and the people of the Northwest Territories will have to make a decision: Do we frack our land or not?

Today companies are telling us we can make lots of money fracking the land and selling the oil that comes out, but unlike the past, we can also do our own research now and we can understand that this is dangerous.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change just released its latest report. It repeats what we already knew from the last report in 2007, and the one before that, 2001, only now with greater certainty...

Madam Chair, thanks to the Minister for those remarks. It is great to hear about the Ndilo/Detah projects. Those are this fiscal year rather than next. I look forward maybe to getting an update a year after they get operational so we can hear what lessons are being learned and applied. It sounds like there are not any more new ones being proposed for this coming fiscal year, but maybe the following fiscal year. Thank you. That is all I have.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to table the Status of Women’s three questions to NWT candidates on severe shortage of quality and affordable child care which exists throughout the NWT, and the response of all candidates including many in this House today. Thank you.

Thanks to the Minister for that. I know the Minister is well aware of the phenomenon such as the City of Yellowknife is investing quite a bit in composting and, through that, extending the life of their landfill and avoiding those upfront costs for another year or two or 10 or 20. That’s the phenomenon I’m speaking of here when I ask is the Minister working with government facilities and other departments as the community contemplates having a renewable source of electricity that will replace a lot of fossil fuels, and thereby avoid need for expensive renovations and upgrading to large...

I guess that is recognition that the fracking education workshops are a partial education indeed. As we learned in North Dakota, the cumulative environmental and social impacts of fracking are very much related to how many wells were fracked and the rate at which we permit this development. So under devolution, could the Minister explain how much authority the GNWT will have to control the scale and pace of that development; that is, who will say this is too much and how will we decide that. Mahsi.

Thanks to the Minister. I think that’s exactly what I wanted to hear. As we go down the road, the low-hanging fruit hopefully will be taken care of and some of our building practices will ensure that we have top grade and we don’t need to be retrofitting with the same degree of frequency. It would be nice to know that there is some thought being given to build for the more chewier problems we have along the way.

I brought this up once before and I don’t believe I got a response, so perhaps Mr. Guy would have the term I’m seeking here. There is an American engineer’s standard for energy. It’s...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are to the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources. I would like to chat about fracking in the Sahtu. This week the Minister of ITI explained that it was the responsibility of ENR to look at the social and environmental impacts of fracking.

I am wondering: How is our ENR Minister working to ensure that fracking projects such as those being promoted by ITI are sustainable? By sustainable, I mean that we are looking at the three pillars of sustainability: economic, social and environmental. Mahsi.