Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate the work being done by my colleagues here. This motion asks for the government to initiate discussions with the Government of Canada on the Mackenzie Valley Highway into the Sahtu. It asks us to begin working a lot more seriously on capacity building so that we can nail down benefits from development activities. That’s a start. Obviously, this is only a start and I hope that as we get into assessing what the impacts are and what the responses need to be, and we need to get on this, we need to think about some of the hard, cold realities that are coming out. Those have to do with the ephemeral nature of oil and shale gas reserves. They’ve been found to have a much shorter life than predicted. They rarely work out. The oil shale plays, for example, two out of 20 oil plays worked out in the U.S. So there’s some serious looks needed so that we can develop appropriately. I’m trusting that the government, as we move forward on this, will be astute in staying on top of what is actually happening. I will be supporting this motion but it is only a beginning.
Bob Bromley on Motion 4-17(4): Federal Support For Sahtu Jobs And Economic Growth, Carried
In the Legislative Assembly on February 26th, 2013. See this statement in context.
Motion 4-17(4): Federal Support For Sahtu Jobs And Economic Growth, Carried
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February 25th, 2013
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