Again, it’s just one more thing that I think we need to add to the list of potential amendments to the act. I think, as legislators, we
need to make sure that NWT residents are protected against potential financial liabilities, and we have to make sure that any legislation that we put in place around developments and so on ensures our people are going to be protected, that this government is going to be protected in having to pick up liabilities, whether it be through closure or whether it be through spills or whether it be through just bad practices as an industry.
I wanted to ask a question with regards to a spill. I think it’s in Section 65. Section 65(5) seems to require an inquiry for a bigger spill or event, but it sounds as though the Minister has some discretion in making the inquiry publicly available. Is this again mirroring or is this something where the Minister will have discretion and if he or she doesn’t really think this big spill needs to be released to the public or the report on this spill doesn’t need to be released, that he or she doesn’t have to release it. It kind of, again, goes to why is it not mandatory, that reporting on a major spill is not mandatory? Thank you.