Bob Bromley

Page 12-21, Industry, Tourism and Investment, activity summary. Mr. Krutko.

I’d like to call Committee of the Whole to order and ask the Minister if he’d like to bring in witnesses.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Sergeant-at-Arms, please escort the witnesses into the House, if committee agrees.

Page 12-23, information item, Industry, Tourism and Investment, energy, active positions. Questions?

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Tabled Document 62-16(4), NWT Main Estimates, 2010-2011, and would like to report progress, with one motion being adopted. I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with.

I wonder if the Minister could provide us with a sheet updating us if there is a trend that’s evident now what that trend is looking like. If there are things that have been added to the things that we’re subsidizing through the rebate program recently, it would be good to see that. Something that lets us know what the uptake is and the trend. That would be great. Maybe I’ll wait for a response on that before moving on here.

Thank you, Minister McLeod. That concludes the general comments. Does committee agreed?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, my first question on this relates to our earlier discussion of biomass and the need for sustainable harvest plans and knowledge. I’m wondering where the department is at on that and is there any areas of the NWT, any at all, where we have developed an estimate of the sustainable harvest rate for the forest. Thank you.