The Power Corporation contracted out much of the expertise that’s required in doing some of these assessments and pulling some of the costs together. The Member has talked about a number of routes: submarine that would be under the lake or at the bottom of the lake; the trans-island route, as discussed; and the western route. We’re talking of the base case plus, for example, the submarine. The estimates were about $50 million more; trans-island was about $40 million more; the western route was looking at $200 million or more.
Again, the partnership has looked at this purely on the business case. We have to be able to say if we are going to make this work, be able to sell power to the industry, in this case the mines, for a lower cost than what they can produce right now and that is diesel generation and hauling the fuel up to their sites, otherwise they have no interest because they have already invested in the infrastructure.
The one case scenario is Gahcho Kue where they have yet to make a decision if they are going to go to a mine development. They are looking to see if we, as a government, are going to provide the hydro side or will they have to provide for their own power initially and that could affect their decision about go or no-go.
So we’ve had to fully base this on the ability to provide power at or better than they can develop right now and that’s been driving the business model we’re into.
Now, Members would like to see this additional information. I will see and provide again an update to Members on who put this information together for
us and provide that to Members and see where that goes. Right now, the Member asked earlier, this business call, the developer’s assessment report that went on is based on the routing that was laid out, that has gone through the hearing and we’ve got some feedback there. Deze is looking at doing some rerouting to adjust for the concerns of the band and others in the area. Thank you.