Mr. Speaker, there is also the issue that they've identified a rich ore body which they want to access under a pilot project. They tell us they've made significant strides in how you extract lead and zinc and that it would be, for the most part, benign. It would not be like the old days of open pits. They would have shafts and as they extracted, they would put the waste back into the shafts. These shafts would go down a considerable distance and there is a lot of groundwater issues, environmental issues combined with what is already happening there.
The one concern I have with that particular issue, Mr. Speaker, is while they talk pilot project, what crosses my mind is high grading. That they identified something rich that they get access to under a pilot basis, they will extract it all and then they will tell us it's not worth looking at the rest of the reserves that are there and they will walk away leaving us with even a further mess on the South Slave. So as we review this process and this project proposal and before we all give our seal of approval and accept it as a way to make some money, we have to be very careful. We have a history there and we have to take the right steps and I am not convinced that this is in the best interest of the people of the Northwest Territories. Thank you.
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