Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, we are involved in the process government-wide with all government departments and agencies, and looking at the high energy costs, especially the high-rising fuel costs in which there are dollars that will be approved in this House through the supp to carry us forward. We did not build it into our estimates. In the last year we did. I think because of the uncertainty of the high price and the impact that it's had territorial-wide and also government-wide, that it has been managed now through the central government. We are looking at the energy affects that we've seen, so we're again with our partners, we're working with the Arctic Energy Alliance in regards to finding ways to how we utilize energy and also how we use energy. Also, with our local housing authorities, we've been having workshops with our different authorities to find more ways of conserving energy, but also finding new technologies that are out there in regards to using less energy and also bringing down the costs to ourselves and operations.

Members realize that there is a high cost to operate public housing, especially in the communities, and one of the highest cost-drivers we have, you think it will be electricity, but realistically the highest cost we pay is for water consumption for our public housing units because we pay a high rate by way of the government rate in most of these communities. So to deal with that, we do have a full volume of flush toilets. We're able to try to conserve energy. We're doing some pilot projects in regards to the different communities, of how do we re-use or recycle water that's being used in those units. Also, we're looking at energy-efficient appliances in regards to changing the heating systems we have in our facilities that are more energy-efficient than the older furnaces that we have in place. So we do have some pilot projects that are in place, but again that the Member talks about in regards to fuel costs is territory-wide. It affects all government departments and it is an issue that is dealt with through

the Government of the Northwest Territories across the board, so we are a part of that program.