Thank you, Mr. Chair. And thanks for the response to that there, deputy minister. And my other question is that I participated in a virtual led by the Sahtu Renewable Resources Board on the many sumps that -- waste sumps that are out there on the land in the Sahtu. So they're doing an inventory similar to what they did in the Beaufort Delta, and it'll help diversify our economy by creating this clean-up. So I would suggest the department, if they want to reach out to the Sahtu Renewable Resource Board in Tulita, to see how they can help. If you got a big sump that's out there that's left prior to legislation not allowing those anymore, it'll create some winter seasonal access jobs to recap these sumps. By legislation, you need a meter cap on top of these sumps, so you'd be hauling some material there. So that'll be the economics in compliance with the sumps out there. And you have the well watch program with OROGO, so maybe ITI could take a lead in partnership with OROGO to initiate those discussions. Maybe even having a one-on-one meeting in Tulita with the Sahtu Renewable Resource Board. So that's a suggestion.
And getting back to the remediation opportunities that is going to be coming, I would also suggest the department to participate into the opportunities, and maybe even go one step further and updating the report that was done on the remediation economy back in the 19th Assembly, to identify what is not identified in that study or in that report. I think this whole remediation economy is really on the verge of a prosperous project throughout the whole territories.
And to give you an example on the magnitude, the magnitude of the Norman Wells clean-up, it hasn't really been identified to what scale it actually is because there never was a subsurface geotechnical study done. The whole purpose of drafting your scope for clean-up would be to identify the depth in the area of the clean-up itself, and once you know how deep it is and what the surface area is, that'll give you an area of impact as to what the remediation plan should do to address that area. And it's going to be huge. It's going to be huge. And you think we have to prepare for that. As everybody knows it's called a nonrenewable resource for those reasons. It's not renewable. So it's going to require the clean-up. Sure, the Esso -- Esso company has taken a lead role in filing their closure and reclamation plan similar to Diavik, but Diavik seems to be one more step ahead by having collaboration. But it seems like with Imperial, they're not. So maybe this department could help in that area.
And then once the identified opportunities are in place, how do we prepare our workforce for those opportunities? And it seems like, you know, in every jurisdiction of the Northwest Territories, aside from the Sahtu, there is some level of activity there. Like, I respect the fact that Inuvik has a knowledge economy and a research institute, which is very important to the science collected by that office. But that's just an example of what they have, and we don't have, so to speak. So I think we have to -- as the Minister said, we have to look at what we have and where we're going to go and design a scope accordingly to help diversify our economy. Thank you, Mr. Chair.