Agreed.
---Agreed
Environmental Protection
Debates of March 6th, 1995
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The Chair Tony Whitford
Environmental protection, operations and maintenance, total O and M. The chair recognizes the Member for Nahendeh.
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. On this particular activity, environmental protection, I would like to ask the Minister if we have an act that protects the air quality from hazardous substances and so forth; the monitoring and regulating of activities. Last year, I was concerned about this because of the air contamination that some of the mines in Yellowknife have allegedly been producing. I wanted to know if the Minister and his department are doing anything to comply with the act so that we have good air quality here in Yellowknife? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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Silas Arngna'naaq Kivallivik
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The particular concern raised by the Member comes under the Environmental Protection Act. It was raised to me as a concern by Members from Yellowknife. I chaired a meeting that all the Members of Yellowknife attended, as well as officials of a mine here in Yellowknife and a number of the other department groups in the government. We had, I believe, a full-length discussion as to how these concerns that are being raised will be addressed.
The department officials are continuing to meet and try to come up with an agreement because it is the department that continues to monitor the quality of air that surrounds the city. Discussions are still going on between mine officials and department staff who are in environmental protection. If we are not able to come up with an agreement on the air quality, the guidelines that we have are exactly what the title states; they are guidelines, and are not enforceable. If we're not able to come to an agreement, we will consider making them regulations. At the present time, I believe that department staff and mine officials are still in the midst of discussions. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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The Chair Tony Whitford
Thank you, Mr. Minister. Environmental protection, operations and maintenance, total O and M, $664,000.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Jeannie Marie-Jewell Thebacha
Mr. Chairman, regarding environmental protection, if I can ask to go back; I was just wondering with regard to this environmental protection and particularly with respect to a recycling type of system, the Minister had indicated that the FMB had disapproved of it, or returned it not having been approved. Even though he says it's unsightly but not hazardous, what was the cost with respect to encouraging the recycling of empty beverage cans?
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Silas Arngna'naaq Kivallivik
Mr. Chairman, maybe I'll ask Mr. Handley to respond to it.
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Handley
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The department looked at a number of options on how to set up a program to recycle beverage containers. We are trying to have a system that would be similar to neighbouring provinces. I don't know the exact cost offhand but we can provide that for each option. The biggest problem was, particularly in fly-in communities which are most of our communities, it would mean having to fly the stuff out unless we were to just put it in the garbage dumps, which is not recycling. It just didn't seem feasible, in most of our communities, to have a system which would be a true recycling program for most of the communities. As the Minister said, we then turned our attention to other issues
which are much more pressing such as the disposal of hazardous waste. Thank you.
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Jeannie Marie-Jewell Thebacha
Was there a way that the department, in conjunction with the Arctic environmental strategy on the green plan, were they able to somehow collectively address a recycling type of system in the north?
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Handley
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We did look at it and we had discussions with the federal government under the environmental protection strategy. Again, unfortunately, the priorities were in other areas such as cleaning up around the lake and cleaning up old DEW Line sites and so on. So again, beverage container recycling wasn't a high priority in the conclusion of our discussions with the federal representatives.
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Jeannie Marie-Jewell Thebacha
Would it be possible to obtain the information with respect to the cost of setting something like this up? Not particularly the total cost that you were looking at, but even the cost for a particular community to set this system up.
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Handley
Mr. Chairman, we can provide the costs.
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The Chair Tony Whitford
Thank you, Mr. Handley. Environmental protection, operations and maintenance, total O and M, $664,000.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Field Operations
Bill 1: Appropriation Act, No. 2, 1995-96Committee Report 4-12(7): Report On The Review Of The 1995-96 Main Estimates
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Forest Fire Management