Thank you, Member. Minister of Infrastructure.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The department, you know, we have an energy strategy that we need to meet. We are advancing some of the projects such as the transmission lines that's happening in the Deh Cho and perhaps the Inuvik wind projects happening in the Beaufort Delta.

The department did look into two wind projects in Sachs Harbour, in Norman Wells. Unfortunately, it was not feasible and which means there was not enough wind generation to be able to advance with some of these projects.

In terms of where the Member's coming from and looking at next steps, if there are any other projects that are happening, if I can, Mr. Jenkins.

Thank you. ADM Jenkins.

Thank you, ADM Jenkins. Member for Deh Cho.

Mahsi, Madam Chair. I was interested in your biomass energy. I think that's $200,000 I think you have. It's supporting new initiative to assist increased use of wood burning technologies.

I'm just wondering if there's other departments that access this funding or your department helps other departments? And I'm speaking about like the Housing Corporation, and utilizing some of this. Mahsi.

Thank you, Member. Minister of Infrastructure.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, the Member asked this question on the floor earlier and, you know, I'm looking at my colleague here from Housing and I provided her with some notes. I leaned over; I can't find them anymore. But there are -- the Department of Infrastructure works with Housing. We did 40 apartments in the Sissons. So I mean, we do continue to advance some of our projects together. I mean, all the departments need to be able to work together and advance some of these projects, not in silos, but altogether, and look at what's the best source of energy savings for residents, communities, and the departments as well. Thank you.

Thank you. Member for Deh Cho.

Are any communities accessing this program and if you could get some examples. Mahsi.

Thank you. Minister of Infrastructure.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, you know, we have done a lot of projects in the Northwest Territories. You look at some of the schools that are built, all new infrastructure buildings. We try and incorporate biomass heating as it's cleaner and it's better for the environment.

In terms of going forward, I'm going to see if Mr. Brennan can talk about anything that we're advancing, perhaps looking at other federal funding to be able to support more biomass in the territories. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you. Mr. Brennan.

I think I wasn't clear on that one, but it's nice to know that you're working with other departments.

I was wondering if anyone else, besides government departments, access funding like this or you have funding for them, like community governments, community local businesses? Mahsi.

Thank you, Member. Minister of Infrastructure.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm going to ask Mr. Jenkins to see if he can speak about some of the partnerships and the building with other departments or other NGOs. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you. Mr. Jenkins.

Thank you. Member for Deh Cho.

Mahsi for that. Mahsi, Madam Chair. There's a lot of little programs within here; they're almost kind of similar, they must be tied together somehow. But I'm just wondering about the NWT energy efficiency projects which has about $300,000. It's working with -- specifically, this one is stating it works with NTPC to integrate residual heat, variable speed generators and other energy technologies to reduce fossil fuel consumption.

I don't think I'm aware of anything like this. Can you provide clarification as to what that is actually doing? Mahsi.

Thank you. Minister of Infrastructure.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, one projects we did work with to reduce the fossil fuels and the diesel and revert to solar was in Aklavik. We've had an extensive program that happened in Aklavik where this is just one of many examples where we have reduced diesel consumption and, you know, started to look at solar panel. So that is something that we are doing. Thank you.