Mahsi. Mr. Edjericon.
Debates of Feb. 24th, 2022
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Richard Edjericon Tu Nedhe-Wiilideh
Just one more I think. I'm just thinking about the -- on the Giant Mine public hearing, we had many intervenors or proponents etcetera, like DFO, department of the environment, and all the aboriginal groups, etcetera. So if you were to find in your reports and fish studies etcetera, or water quality, you have an opportunity to probably work with the Alberta government and try to I guess address those issues. But also my question would be is that during the water licence process, are we involved in that process too as well through your department and Alberta? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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Kelly
Thank you, Mr. Chair. So there are opportunities through environmental assessment and other licensing for us to provide comments to that, and we do take that opportunity when required. There's also the bilateral management committee with Alberta and the Northwest Territories that has an Indigenous Member on it where we can talk about these matters as well. So we have multiple ways to bring forward concerns related to upstream development. But that's an Alberta licensing process when it's something that's in Alberta. So it would be, you know, providing input through those two ways that I mentioned but we're not part of that licensing process specifically. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Katrina Nokleby Great Slave
Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I apologize ahead of time if this was already asked because I was off doing a meeting, so.
I'm just curious, I notice that the department has in the last while, or in 2020, released sort of a template now for reporting water quality sampling results etcetera in the Northwest Territories. And I'm just wondering where the department is at for -- for groundwater guidelines or for our own water and soil guidelines in the North versus using, say, federal guidelines. Are we continuing to develop, or are we still just using interim guidelines in the meantime? Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thanks.
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Kelly
Thank you, Mr. Chair. So we have our own remediation guidelines and some of them are from different jurisdictions because we can use what's already been done in other places, and some of them are specific to the Northwest Territories. And right now, we're reviewing arsenic guideline, for example, because there's some circumstances in the Northwest Territories that mean that we need to look at that from a specific NWT perspective. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Katrina Nokleby Great Slave
Thank you, Mr. Chair. So I guess -- sorry, just one sec here. So under the -- in the grants contributions transfer, the water regulatory line there, is that just sort of a status quo amount, so that's not that they're -- like, you're not developing new ones, that money's not going to new development; it's more just for the application of the regulatory guidelines? Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Kelly
Thank you, Mr. Chair. So the water regulatory is for review of projects, not for guidelines. So this is when we have some of the projects happening and we need to get some support through grants and contributions for review of those projects for expertise. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Katrina Nokleby Great Slave
Thank you, Mr. Chair. And is that a number that's generally, like, a static throughout the time, or do we expect fluctuations based on additional projects coming online? Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Kelly
Thank you, Mr. Chair. So it depends on the projects that come up that year and whether we have the expertise in house to address them or whether we need to work with others, whether they're academics or other experts, to be able to get the information we need to make sure that we're reviewing the projects properly. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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