Thank you, Mr. Chair. I am going to sum up a little bit of everything that we are doing on this file. As we know, this is important to everybody in the Northwest Territories. It is a true fact of life that is coming down the pipe for the whole country.
First of all, we are working with the federal government on a number of initiatives. We have some people working directly to get remote communities off diesel fuel, which is important to all Northern communities right across Canada. The Department of Finance is working with the carbon tax file. There are two things right off the bat.
When we were down in Ottawa, we were pushing all our renewable initiatives, the Taltson Project, the windmill project, renewables file. That is another initiative, and we are waiting to see what the federal government gives us money for in the coming budget in the next couple of months.
The department also does a number of initiatives internally already that we hope address a number of these things. We are working on the capital refit program. We have the new construction where we apply all the new energy strategies and legislation to make them the most efficient new building construction. We work with E and R on the biomass file to push that forward for the residents of the Northwest Territories. There are a number of initiatives besides just this page.
As all Members know, I have said the reductions on this page is due to a sunset due to a one-time Low Water initiative that was put forward in the last Assembly. That is where we sit right now. The department is working very hard to address these issues. Thank you, Mr. Chair.