Thank you, Mr. Chair. The comments that I have will focus around the upgrade to the Tulita fuel tank farm. We appreciate it and it’s looking like it’s coming together, and certainly, as I talked to the Minister earlier, and hopefully, once the Tulita tank farm has been completed, I would like to sit with the Minister and review the infrastructure on that project. There were some inquiries earlier when it did begin and there was some, I’m not too sure if it was a misunderstanding or a misinterpretation as to the project itself in regard to some of the community’s expectations and how the project has been carried out. I would like to, of course, when the project is done, sit down and review it and look at the project itself there. It is being carried out and I’d certainly want to know if it’s going to be done within the time schedule and the framework that was explained to us when the first project did come out on the capital plan books and the contract was signed, sealed and delivered and work started there. I wanted to ask that on the ongoing infrastructure.
The other issue I want to look at is, again, the energy conservation issues and projects with the Capital Asset Retro Fund under this program and looking at some of the issues that we have in Norman Wells with our own assets, buildings there, and helping out with the conversion. Helping out with the community there is something that I want to talk a little about and see what the department has been doing.
The gas taps will be turned off October 31, 2014. That’s one year away. We know that for sure and Imperial Oil will be turning off the gas taps to the natural gas to the town of Norman Wells. It’s quite ironic that we are sitting on a lot of fuel there, yet one of the taps is being turned off. We are looking at other means of energy, and certainly diesel, propane and biomass is being some of the energy alternatives that we could be using there. I want to ask about what’s happening in that community with our assets and I certainly look forward to seeing what’s being done to protect our assets. I will be asking questions later on about the support for business and residential homes at another time for support for my own people there. Those are my comments to the department. Thank you.