My questions are for the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources.
1. Could the Minister provide a “Class D” type
estimate on the cost effectiveness of the government’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions of NWT society during the last fiscal year, 2012-2013? For the purposes of this question, “cost effectiveness” is defined as the total costs, including all funding paid by the GNWT for programming funding, salaries, travel and overhead dedicated towards implementing the actions listed in Appendix 1 of the 2011-2015 Greenhouse Gas Strategy divided by the total reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that are estimated to result over the project lifetimes of projects initiated that fiscal year. This should produce an estimated cost per tonne of greenhouse gas emissions reduced over business as usual for the fiscal year.
2. For further comparison, could the Minister
provide the same dollars per tonne cost effectiveness calculation for each of the rebates under the Energy Efficiency Incentive Program?
3. Could the Minister provide the same cost
effectiveness calculation for the Commercial Energy Conservation and Efficiency Program?
4. Could the Minister provide the same cost
effectiveness calculation for the NWT Energy Conservation Program?
5. Could the Minister provide the same cost
effectiveness calculation for the NWT Alternative Energy Technologies Program?