Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I support this motion and I want to thank, first of all, my colleagues for doing all this work on this. I am not on this committee and it has been a struggle to keep up with everything that's been going on. So what I like about this or what I think is really important about this one is that I don't think that the people of our territory or the residents of our territory, private business, should be paying for the failure of the Northwest Territories Power Corporation to maintain its grid properly. It was really shocking to me when I came into Cabinet actually, as a Minister, and was told that the Town of Inuvik could no longer add any future solar panels because it would cause too much of a drain to the power corp and it would no longer be able to sustain itself in that region. I know since then we've had some other projects come up but it is still my understanding, and again not an expert, that, you know, the power corp is -- or the rate, the cap, is restricting people from doing their own work or for creating innovative industries around renewables and such. So to me, while I understand that this is likely going to have a huge issue and cost to the power corp, I no longer think that's the problem of the residents of the Northwest Territories; that's the problem of the power corp. And the power corp being run by the board of deputy ministers, I think then becomes a problem of the Government of the Northwest Territories. Clearly if we'd been putting money into renewables 20 years ago, we wouldn't be in this problem. So I support this motion, Madam Chair. Thank you.
Katrina Nokleby on Committee Motion 374-19(2): Committee Report 45-19(2): Standing Committee on Government Operations Report on Bill 60: An Act to Amend the Petroleum Products and Carbon Tax Act - Intermittent Renewable Energy, Carried
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Committee Motion 374-19(2): Committee Report 45-19(2): Standing Committee on Government Operations Report on Bill 60: An Act to Amend the Petroleum Products and Carbon Tax Act - Intermittent Renewable Energy, Carried
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