Michael Miltenberger

Mr. Speaker, I seek unanimous consent to return to item 16, notices of motion for first reading of bills.

---Unanimous consent granted

Thank you, Madam Chair. Once again I apologize for double-siding my speech.

With respect to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources:

$100,000 to increase funding to the Energy Efficiency Incentive Program. This increase will be funded through the transfer of $100,000 from the Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment.

$400,000 to implement a program to replace electric hot water heaters with fuel-fired hot water heaters in communities that depend on thermal generation for electricity.

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wish to table the following three documents, entitled Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 4, 2011-2012; Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 4, 2011-2012; and Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 3, 2012-2013.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We’ve taken that discussion in the House. The Member also put in written questions that we are looking at responding to. We are having the discussions. Once we’re through this budget process, we’ll be able to pay more attention to the matters of the day. I have been thoroughly occupied here in the House, so there hasn’t been a lot that’s happened out of my office other than the initial contact with the department at this juncture. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I give notice that on Monday, March 11, 2013, I will move that Bill 4, Appropriation Act (Operations Expenditures), 2013-2014, be read for the first time. Thank you.

We worked with communities to set up an insurance program for the communities and we invest money in that. A number of years ago we were all being collectively put in the poorhouse by the usurious insurance rates companies were charging, and we went to a self-financing one in the North and we invest in that. It’s cost effective. It’s done through NWTAC.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The $2.6 million was money received in a settlement with a former insurer with the GNWT regarding a lawsuit initiated by the GNWT for compensation with respect to the GNWT and the GN’s settlement with victims of Ed Horne.

Thank you. We’re projecting a fairly aggressive repayment schedule of about 10 years.

Yes, I do, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. As we had shared information in terms of our projections, but this project is seen to be a revenue generator over time. Once we pay down the capital investment costs, the remote sensing operation out of Inuvik, which is the anchor tenant, would be the main revenue generator where we have countries, and agencies, and departments lined up to put in satellites and rent space on our fibre optic line, and then there will also be the ancillary benefits tied into the putting in of the fibre optic line into all the communities down the valley as we install the main line. So over time this...