Oh, Madam Chair, I think I'm an interpreter tonight. We have in the Beaufort Delta in my riding, in our riding back home, I guess we have immense petroleum resources. We have 52 petroleum fields, 263 wells, gas, sitting dormant. When they did the Ikhil pipeline, they had 30 BCF that was providing Inuvik with natural gas. Now with the M18 which is 13 kilometers out of Tuktoyaktuk and 6 kilometers off the highway, we have 500 BCF that could provide condensate to run Inuvik for natural gas, provide jobs, all that good stuff, condensate to provide LNG to our more northerly communities. We're not going to run off of solar and wind. It can't happen. I mean, with all the trees in the world, this ain't going to happen.
For myself, we have to take a step back. Providing condensate and for the northern mines, potentially, if we do that road to nowhere, five mines get brought back up. I guess, if the diamond mine industry gets healthy again, who could provide that natural gas? It's going to be us, as a territory, providing our own fuel. The safety of our people on the Dempster Highway, knowing how many times that road closed this year and the other years in regard to LNG trucks flipping over and tipping, and they can't even go past them for 48 hours for safety, it shuts the road down for two days, and we have so many problems with that road, anyway, in regard to weather this year. Weather has been bad everywhere. Not just for myself, I just thought I'd get clarity on that for my two colleagues here from Yellowknife. I really think, with all the oil and gas in the Beaufort Delta, we should keep our dialogue open with the oil companies and stuff like that. Let it be known the Inuvialuit and, I know, the Gwich'in, in the oil and gas play, is any kind of work is good work. That's just more of a comment. Thank you, Madam Chair.