Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. Mr. Campbell.

Thank you, Mr. Campbell. Ms. Bisaro.

Thanks, Mr. Chair, and thanks to Mr. Campbell. So, I look at the amount on page 17 and its $357,000. It doesn’t seem like much money to deal with the contaminated sites that we’re going to be taking over.

Can I get an indication of how many sites or what kind of remediation to sites we expect to do with $357,000? Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. For that we’ll go to Ms. Magrum.

Thank you, Ms. Magrum. Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thanks to Ms. Magrum. So in the assessment that the Department of ENR does, is one of the parts of the assessment that they’re doing to assess the cost of remediation of a contaminated site either when it’s a working site or after it’s a working site? What I’m getting at is in terms of securities. If the department assesses a site as being contaminated, will they also advise Finance, I presume, that the costs to remediate that site is let’s say $1 million, then presumably the responsibility lies with Finance to go and get that money either from a company or from GNWT. Is that a function of ENR, that they will assess the cost to remediate? Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Minister Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There are various levels of environmental assessment and the boards that will be involved, the ones that assess and decide on the security that’s going to be required for whatever particular project, at that point ENR has a role to play as the project proceeds and as it gets close to its end days whether the fund has kept pace with costs and what needs to be done, and does what needs to be done match what was initially envisioned when the security deposit was set. But I’ll ask the deputy if he could add a bit more detail.

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. Mr. Campbell.

Thank you, Mr. Campbell. Mr. Campbell, I’ll give you a chance just to repeat that last part. I don’t think it was picked up.

Thank you, Mr. Campbell, for correcting. Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you for the clarification. ENR is going to identify the site, one of the boards is presumably going to establish the amount of security that is required, so who then demands of a company that they put up that security and once ENR determines, say, that liability is a million dollars and the company has only put up $500,000, who is going after the company to make sure we get that other $500,000 so that remediation is not going to fall on the taxpayers of the NWT?

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Minister Miltenberger.

That will be a function of the boards and the approval process before they’re granted their permits.

Okay. One last question. Then I’m applying for a development. Before I’m granted my permit, I have to put up the security that has been assessed to me. Is that correct?

The boards will set a schedule for payment.

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. Ms. Bisaro, your time is up. Let me know if you want to get back on this one here. We’ll go, again, environment. I’ll go back to Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Two things: I don’t think we should diminish the amount of work and time and effort we’ve spent in making a fundamental shift in the use of alternative energy in the Northwest Territories, which I think is very significant and I think it in fact probably leads the country in terms of things like biomass and our investment in solar, especially in remote communities, and we’re going to continue to make those investments.

Yes, I agree with the Member that we want to look at all avenues when it comes to being as environmentally conscious as possible with the smallest carbon footprint possible, and as I indicated, when we go forward with the renewal of the Greenhouse Gas Strategy and the Solar Strategy, and as we look at the things that we’ve done and where we have to continue to go, we’ll consider that option as well.