Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Maybe I’m trying to oversimplify it, but people couldn’t afford to pay their heating bills this past winter and now that the prices are going up, all we’re saying is help, do something, we need to get ahead of that cost and we need help to do that. I know I speak for many people in the Northwest Territories when I say if you could just get that little bit of help needed to get that installation of something, people would be out there pursuing healthy activities, collecting, harvesting, cutting, splitting firewood, taking it into their houses. People would receive it. People are just saying help. Like I said, we couldn’t afford it at the prices it was at all winter. We’re going into a time that by next winter who knows what’s going to happen with the oil producing nations. I just want this government to have a very proactive eye on what’s coming down the pipe and we need help.
Jane Groenewegen on Question 534-16(5): GNWT’s Efforts To Promote Biomass And Reduce Reliance Of Fossil Fuels
In the Legislative Assembly on February 28th, 2011. See this statement in context.
Question 534-16(5): GNWT’s Efforts To Promote Biomass And Reduce Reliance Of Fossil Fuels
Oral Questions
February 27th, 2011
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