Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The spending to date, and I would note that this is a special warrant because this work was urgently required, has been to Capital West Partners, $59,000 for economic feasibility studies; to a consultant in Fort Smith, Mr. Francois Paulette, to assist us in our work with the South Slave leadership on the hydro project; to Mr. Norm Olson, to work with us on the transmission line issues, $7,000; to Mr. Peter Lougheed, to assist us with the overall strategic planning and interprovincial issues that are associated with hydro development, about $16,000; to McLennan Ross, a local legal firm here, to work with us on the regulatory, taxation and corporate structuring aspects of hydro development, most of it specific to the potential for Taltson River development, which was part of the recommendations in the initial electrical review report. That is about $140,000. Most of that work was undertaken by their southern offices who have the taxation and the corporate structuring and legal expertise necessary to do the work.
There was money paid to Snowman Communications, about $70,000, with respect to the development of communications strategy and materials. There was $5,900 paid to the Manitoba Trade and Investments for the Government of the Northwest Territories share of the east-west transmission study grid, which was a joint interprovincial study that all the provinces and territories participated in.
There was $100,000 paid to Mr. Dave Morrison and Associates, who was one of the consultants who worked on the initial electrical review. This was to complete the public consultation and the resulting restructuring or adjustments to their recommendations on the electrical review study and to further the work on the hydro research. To Mr. Jim Robertson, about $90,000 for additional work on both the electrical review study and the hydro work. Mr. Fred Abbott, $43,000 for further work on the electrical review recommendations and on the hydro financing.
Those are some of the contracts that have been raised. Many of them are northern. Some of them are southern because of the type of expertise that was required on the project.