Nothing further, thanks. But I look forward to raising the issue with the Minister of Infrastructure on her day. Thanks.
Debates of Oct. 20th, 2022
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Katrina Nokleby Great Slave
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I am just curious to know what's going to happen at the Liard River ferry crossing day use area. I had an opportunity to park my vehicle there and was quite shocked at how many cars park there in that area at the crossing when they're choppering across. So I am just curious how that will all get incorporated and how large of a day use area are we talking about. Thank you.
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Caroline Wawzonek Yellowknife South
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, let me direct that to the deputy minister, please.
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Strand
Thank you, Mr. Chair. So, yes, this area we know in the past has been very heavily used, an important place. So the plan for the Liard crossing includes the development of a day use area that will include six camp areas so that people can have fire pits and picnic tables. We'll have signage along the highway as well to create awareness of that fact, and it'll be right along the river. And a water and woodshed will also be built to offer travellers water or food for cooking and enjoying their fire as well as garbage receptacles. So the life for this park improvement is supposed to be about approximately 15 years. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Katrina Nokleby Great Slave
Thank you for that. I'm just curious to know, then, is that up out of the flood plain given what was happening with the river. Has that been all -- I'm assuming has all been taken into account but maybe if the Minister or her department could speak to that, that would be great. Thanks.
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Caroline Wawzonek Yellowknife South
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I would also assume that that scoping has been done, but I don't know. So let me take that away, and I will make a commitment to get back to the Member with a public response on that.
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Katrina Nokleby Great Slave
Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I just can't resist - what's going on with MLA Semmler's outhouses that always keep getting shot up, up in Inuvik, have those been replaced this year? Thank you.
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Caroline Wawzonek Yellowknife South
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just want to make sure I have the right park when I go to see which one this is. But the deputy minister might now offhand immediately which one it is so let me turn to her, please.
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Strand
I don't have that on my fingertips but what we have built into our capital planning is making sure that we upkeep the assets, such as the outhouses that might have been vandalized or other factors. So it is top of mind. And we are ensuring that that's built into our capital plan annually. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Katrina Nokleby Great Slave
Thank you for that. And I was being a little tongue and cheek, so I do appreciate the deputy minister and Minister indulging me.
I guess my last question is just around the -- oh, and I'm not going to say this right -- the park renewable energy retrofits that I can't say the first name of, in Inuvik. Thank you. If I could have some more information there. Thank you.
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Caroline Wawzonek Yellowknife South
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I believe we're talking about Nataiinlaii park, but I'm again probably not quite doing justice to the name. And, Mr. Chair, with respect to that project, this -- it's a full-service campground with 21 complete camp sites, group camping, kitchen, shelters, staff house buildings etcetera. And obviously fuel costs are fairly significant, so looking to install a solar panel system which should both obviously be a greener source of power but also be one that would be a lot less noisy and then hopefully significantly less costly. Right now we're looking around $4,000 a month to operate. So that is a little bit of savings.
And, sorry, I think I may have missed one of the residual questions. If I did, I apologize. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Katrina Nokleby Great Slave
Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair. Yeah, no, I just wanted to know what the retrofit was. And I just want to say I think that's super cool, and I hope that we'll see more solar sort of arrays in our parks. Thanks.
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Jane Weyallon Armstrong Monfwi
Thank you. I see in North Arm campground kitchen shelter. I know it's been -- you know, they've been working on it for quite some time. So I just want to ask the Minister, are we on time to complete this project?