Thank you. The Minister is assuming that Education, Culture and Employment has programs to train environmental monitors or environmental observers, I do not believe that is the case.
I think that there will have to be some better communications between the two departments. It is pretty typical of what is happening in terms of resource development and the lack of support we are getting. The more people that we can get into these types of positions from the community would certainly help us as a territorial government. To have somebody on the ground monitoring what is happening. We have to have people who are trained in that area.
I would ask if the Minister could provide me with the dates, times and purpose that his officers or his employees have gone up into the Cameron Hills. I am really curious to see that. When have they gone? Why have they gone? And what kind of reports do they bring back? If he is telling us that he has a fire camp up in the Cameron Hills and they use that during the summers, well, I would contest that, because the fire camp has not been opened in the last ten to 15 years. If we are counting on people in that camp to monitor what is going on, well, there is nobody there.
I would like to see those things. It really troubles me that there is a real void here of information when it comes to dealing with the oil and gas situation in Cameron Hills and our own people that are charged with looking at the situation and are responsible for it are not there. We do not have the information, we do not have the baseline studies. We do not have the timber inventories yet.
Yet the doors are opened. I realize it is a federal initiative that is putting us in this situation, but we should insist on the baseline studies. We do not have stream truthing yet. We do not know what streams are being affected by oil companies and if we do not have people up there watching what is going on and especially if we have federal people in the position to do environmental monitoring, they are not trained, they do not know what they are suppose to be looking for. They do not know what kind of clean up that they should be looking at. In reality we do not know what is going on up there, not from this government's standpoint.
I would like to know if the Minister could tell me that he is going to take a serious stab at changing of how things are being handled.