Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'll stick, I guess, to the value-added discussions around lowering the cost of living. We do know there are some manufacturing options that are being looked at, some things that other communities are pursuing. Pipe coating is a project that the community of Hay River is particularly interested in. But in terms of whether or not communities along the pipeline route will be able to access gas for their utilities, whether that's electrical generation or home heat, I know that discussion is on the table. There are other options. Obviously there are issues to deal with if you convert from diesel to natural gas. You can have stranded assets. The Power Corporation obviously would have assets that would need to be converted, or I guess would become not useful anymore. Appliances in homes would have to be changed over. So there are some costs.
Obviously the benefit would be the environmental cost that we're offsetting. But I think there's also the option, we've had a lot of discussion around hydro. We think the legacy infrastructure in terms of hydro can make a big impact on the cost of living or electrical generation. Waste heat generated, I think, from compression statements up and down the pipeline could potentially be used to generate electricity, as well. So there are a number of
options being pursued. There may be more in terms of access agreements being negotiated by regional groups that I'm not aware of, but those are the kinds of things we're talking about. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.