Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm not sure how close they are to proceeding with development. Our involvement has been to try and facilitate a process dealing with lands in Yellowknife. There has been an application made to the City of Yellowknife for a section of land in the sandpits area. We've had some discussions with the Yellowknives Dene. We've also had some discussions with the City of Yellowknife. We've indicated to those groups that we needed to see all the development plans come forward because, along with the City of Yellowknife development plan, we have the Yellowknives Dene First Nation's development plan, the Department of Transportation has an airport development plan, and we have the Akaitcho land claim negotiations land selections going on. So all these things are in the process, in the works. There's a lot of overlap. We're trying to develop a system that will allow us to process some of these applications. I know that the City of Yellowknife and the Yellowknives were meeting. I believe their staff were meeting yesterday. The City of Yellowknife wants to have a discussion and hear their presentation with their counsel on what the Yellowknives are planning to do. That application has not come to us, Mr. Speaker. They're having some discussions between the City of Yellowknife and the Yellowknives and they're reviewing a number of things, including how this would fit with the City of Yellowknife's development plans, including the zoning. So there are a number of things that need to be discussed and, up until now, the only thing we've done is to allow the Yellowknives access to the sandpits area to do some geophysical work and do some engineering studies and that's the limit of our involvement, Mr. Speaker.
Michael McLeod on Question 385-15(3): Deton'cho Access To Sandpits Land
In the Legislative Assembly on February 15th, 2005. See this statement in context.
Further Return To Question 385-15(3): Deton'cho Access To Sandpits Land
Question 385-15(3): Deton'cho Access To Sandpits Land
Item 6: Oral Questions
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