Mr. Chairman, the largest portion of the work and the dollar expenditure are related to energy efficiency initiatives. The Department of Public Works and Services is taking a lead in a couple of those initiatives, specifically trying to re-establish a data base of utilities consumption and cost information from which the department and the government can begin to do some more long-range planning on managing its energy consumption.
The work to date has involved identifying a suitable electronic data base that can be used to capture this information and attempting to identify all the various sources of information, so that we can determine how best to access it. Then we will be moving over the next fiscal year to actually trying to load that data into the new information system and begin to track on an annual basis what the consumption and cost of energy and utilities is for all departments and all government agencies.
That is the chunk that the Department of Public Works and Services is predominantly involved in and it is working with a number of other departments in that regard.
There are a number of other initiatives that other departments are taking the lead on, and I am afraid I cannot give you an update on those other than there is a interdepartmental utilities management committee that has been established under the chair of the Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development.
That interdepartmental committee will be attempting to coordinate the various initiatives as well as to act as something of a peer group for the review of initiatives that are undertaken by individual departments and ensure that all departments are taking this initiative seriously.