Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As the Member indicated, we did have a chipseal program. I think we did a total of seven communities over the last while with the Main Street Chipsealing Program. The program was then rolled into the capital that went into the formula.

We had done a study for all the communities in the Northwest Territories to look at different ways each community could be applying dust suppressant, and it looked at the different soil conditions. It really focused a lot on a chipseal product called DL-10, another product called EK-35, End-Dust, and calcium. I don’t believe asphalt was included.

Asphalt is a very expensive product to apply. At the time I don’t believe even Transportation was using it on their roads; they were using chipseal. It’s something that is probably fairly new if a community is utilizing it, and I would certainly talk to Transportation about the possibility of utilizing this. The DOT had delivered all our programs when we had the Main Street Chipsealing Program, so we’ll refer them to take a look at it. We as a department have not looked at using asphalt as a dust suppressant.