Mr. Speaker, before these kinds of projects can move ahead, as I mentioned earlier, we have to go through a number of steps. First of all, there is the conceptual step of whether we have a project. We then do the pre-feasibility. We do the feasibility which follows that. That looks at the engineering and environmental work primarily. Then we go into a project definition stage, which describes what it is we have to do, what it's going to cost and so on. It is at that point that we would be able to go and talk to customers about whether we have a project or not because we know what it's going to cost, we know what it looks like and we know the magnitude of the project. We then would go through a permitting stage, then into construction and eventually into operation. So there is a whole range of steps we have to go through before we can identify a customer. Mr. Speaker, we have not taken either of these projects to the point yet where we would be able to, with a lot of comfort, go talk to a customer about a price. I expect, Mr. Speaker, that within the balance of this fiscal year, we should be able to know that we have a project or we have two projects or we have no project. Hopefully before the end of March 2005 we would be at that point and would be able to talk serious dollars with customers both for the Taltson project and the Bear River project if we continue on the path we are on now. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Joe Handley on Question 250-15(3): Funding For The Bear And Taltson Hydro Project
In the Legislative Assembly on October 19th, 2004. See this statement in context.
Further Return To Question 250-15(3): Funding For The Bear And Taltson Hydro Project
Question 250-15(3): Funding For The Bear And Taltson Hydro Project
Item 6: Oral Questions
October 18th, 2004
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