Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the concern, here of course, is that it is a public tender. If Ed Picco, for example, buys a DEW Line site, it would not be, probably, cost efficient for me to bundle the site up and ship it out to Calgary, ship it out to Montreal, wherever. What they would like to do, the person who would buy this, is take off whatever they want in the buildings and then get rid of the rest, and that I guess, is why DIAND is asking for an exemption so that they could actually bury this in the Northwest Territories. My concern here would be, and the concern that has been raised is that they not be allowed to do that, and my question was to the Minister, would he write DND explaining our situation here in the Northwest Territories? Under no circumstances, no circumstances should these DEW Line sites, these buildings, this refuse, the paint, the PCBs be buried here in the Northwest Territories.
Edward Picco on Question 221-13(4): Sale Of Dew Line Sites
In the Legislative Assembly on February 4th, 1997. See this statement in context.
Supplementary To Question 221-13(4): Sale Of Dew Line Sites
Question 221-13(4): Sale Of Dew Line Sites
Item 6: Oral Questions
February 3rd, 1997
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Edward Picco Iqaluit
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