Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, thrilled again to talk about biomass. This is an opportunity where, you know, communities can come forward. There is -- there certainly is opportunity, and I would certainly want to extend the opportunity to speak further to communities, whether it's on small scale projects, which there is funding for under the community grants programs, funding under feasibility studies. There may be opportunities through, you know, and I'd certainly like to be able to perhaps resend some information, that I saw go out at the end of the 19th Assembly under the Minister of Finance's office, laying out a variety of different funds available for community governments to maximize. For example, we've got feasibility studies happening in Hay River and Wekweeti. Housing NWT is trying to make good on some of the work that they're starting under the strategy I mentioned before. Yellowknife, as looking, Bellanca building here in Yellowknife, has a biomass fired boiler system core. The Gwich'in Tribal Council. Mr. Speaker, those are just a few that I'm pulling together and I'm new to the portfolio. So it's an area of, I think, tremendous growth. And one last plug for us, the Northwest Territories is actually a leader. We have 45 buildings already being heated on biomass. 32 percent of GNWT's heat as a government is from biomass. So we're well on our way, and this is really the conversation is to how do we push ourselves to be the true leaders for all of Canada. Thank you.
Caroline Wawzonek on Question 24-20(1): Energy for Housing
In the Legislative Assembly on February 7th, 2024. See this statement in context.
Question 24-20(1): Energy for Housing
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