Again, another one of our major resources is being taken up by a company which is now finding ways, not only shipping diamonds to Antwerp and other places in the world and we end up with nothing. Now we are finding the mine companies that deal with iron ore and heavy metals are finding ways around the Government of the Northwest Territories by simply moving the ore body out of the Northwest Territories, processing it somewhere else so we won’t get the economic and social benefit of that process. So I would like to ask the Minister responsible for Energy Mines and Resources to ensure that any mining process, regardless of how small it is, we receive the maximum benefit as Northerners for a resource that is going to leave the Northwest Territories, regardless of whether if it’s across a border 20 kilometres down the road or basically using a way to get around that responsibility of ensuring that our resources and our wealth are spent in the Northwest Territories. Again, I would like to ask the Minister, can you ensure that any developments that happen in the Northwest Territories, that we are the sole benefactors of any of those developments that take place here in the Northwest Territories regardless of whom?
David Krutko on Question 87-16(4): Regulatory Process Related To The Mactung Mine
In the Legislative Assembly on October 26th, 2009. See this statement in context.
Question 87-16(4): Regulatory Process Related To The Mactung Mine
Oral Questions (Reversion)
October 25th, 2009
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