Thank you, Mr. Chair. For those that are listening, or are going to read this in the Hansard, the difference here is we’re changing the wording that was in the tabled document from “provide incentives” to “we will expand and improve access to incentives.” That’s the key difference here. Just a little bit of an explanation. The original wording says, “provide incentives.” We already do that through the Arctic Energy Alliance, so I don’t think this really represents any kind of innovation or change in any way, and I think what I heard, certainly, during the campaign and from a number of constituents is that we should be looking to improve access to incentives to make them more widely available, particularly to lower-income families, but also perhaps, other communities as well, and that we shouldn’t just improve access, but we should actually expand incentives. I’m sure we’ll have an interesting discussion around what that means as well, but the idea here is that energy efficiency is one of the main ways that we can actually reduce the cost of living for our residents. We should always be doing our best to improve energy efficiency. Arctic Energy Alliance does offer some amazing programs and I think the objective of this change is to ensure that we can do a better job with our residents to lower the cost of living through energy efficiency. Thank you, Mr. Chai
Kevin O'Reilly on Committee Motion 13-18(2): Tabled Document 1-18(2): Proposed Mandate Of The Government Of The Northwest Territories, 2016-2019, Replacement Of Text Regarding Energy Efficiency, Carried
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Committee Motion 13-18(2): Tabled Document 1-18(2): Proposed Mandate Of The Government Of The Northwest Territories, 2016-2019, Replacement Of Text Regarding Energy Efficiency, Carried
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
February 24th, 2016
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