Thank you, Mr. Speaker. With the recent discoveries in the Fort Liard area of significant natural gas finds there has been considerable interest by companies to bring these fields to market, get it into production and build a pipeline to link up to the existing pipeline infrastructure either through the West Coast, that is British Columbia, or through Trans Canada Pipelines which is in Alberta and bring those to the U.S. markets. The U.S. markets are the ones which make it economical because of the millions of people that increasingly require more and more natural gas, it makes it economical to spend millions of dollars building pipelines to bring this resource to market. In the Northwest Territories the city of Yellowknife of some 17,000 people at this time does not present a significant market that would make it economical for anyone to propose spending millions of dollars to link up to natural gas fields to bring natural gas to the city. That is the state of affairs at this time regarding the city of Yellowknife. Generally in the Liard and Mackenzie Valley, increasingly pipeline infrastructure will be built and as more natural gas discoveries, oil is discovered in the Liard, southern Mackenzie area, more money will be spent building up the infrastructure and that will make it increasingly more accessible for the Sahtu, the northern part of the Deh Cho, the southern part of the Mackenzie Valley to bring their resources to market as well. Thank you.
Stephen Kakfwi on Question 3-13(8): Plans For Natural Gas Pipelines
In the Legislative Assembly on September 7th, 1999. See this statement in context.
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