Thank you, Mr. Speaker. No, I have not received a response from the federal government yet, not from DFO or from Environment Canada. The company is required to have a permit in order to dump scrap metal into the ocean. They also require a blasting permit in order to blast the ice to make a hole to enable them to dump the scrap metal. They require two permits. To my knowledge, the federal government has not been very concerned about this. They say there is minimal impact if the scrap metal is dumped. DFO seems to be open to giving the company a permit to allow them to blast. In those two areas I am very concerned. I have given the federal government three options in order to look after this problem. Either they find a way to dispose of this, the same way that DND is doing to old DEW Line sites, or they take the material to land fill sites in a northern community or take it back down south where it came from. Thank you.
Titus Allooloo on Question 462-12(3): Disposal Of Waste Materials In Arctic Ocean
In the Legislative Assembly on March 11th, 1993. See this statement in context.
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Question 462-12(3): Disposal Of Waste Materials In Arctic Ocean
Item 5: Oral Questions
March 10th, 1993
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Titus Allooloo Amittuq
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