Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Okay. So you have an environmental assessment underway currently to take power from a proposed Taltson expansion to the diamond mines via the east arm, basically around the eastern way. Was a proposal considered to bring power the other way, as laid out by Mr. Abernethy? The Minister has said that there’s a 690-kilometre transmission line to go the route that is proposed, but there’s not much between Taltson and the diamond mines to pick up in terms of any additional communities or anything.

Mr. Hawkins talked about a legacy project. Well, there’s an experience they had in the Yukon where they built a power transmission line to a mine in Faro, and it shut down. Then you have what you call stranded assets. A big cost in this whole idea is the construction of the transmission lines. It’s fine to talk about linking up a whole bunch of small

communities, but at some point it becomes cost prohibitive to run a power transmission line into Colville Lake. Okay; I’m using an extreme example, but this thing has to make economic sense. Was a different route of the transmission line contemplated that could have come to the west, up through Yellowknife and then up to the diamond mines along an actual roadway and seasonal road, as Mr. Abernethy asked?