Question 64-16(6): Federal Resources For NWT Highway Between Tuktoyaktuk And Inuvik  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The news for the $150 million was very exciting indeed. I think it took a lot of work, and of course the work wasn’t only carried out by myself. We had the mayors of Tuktoyaktuk and Inuvik very involved with presenting the case and building up the argument

Question 64-16(6): Federal Resources For NWT Highway Between Tuktoyaktuk And Inuvik  I think the Members of this House did a very good job over the last while about raising the profile of our infrastructure needs across the Territories. We have a motion in this House indicating that the Mackenzie Valley Highway is very important to us, and we want to see that f

Question 64-16(6): Federal Resources For NWT Highway Between Tuktoyaktuk And Inuvik  We’re very eager to travel to Ottawa. There are a lot of issues we want to talk about. There is still an application from the Northwest Territories to the Green Fund. The City of Yellowknife had a submission on behalf of the Northland Trailer Court. There was a hydro line applied

Question 64-16(6): Federal Resources For NWT Highway Between Tuktoyaktuk And Inuvik  As the Minister I can’t only focus on a certain part of the Northwest Territories. I have other responsibilities. I would not be doing justice if I didn’t speak about long-term stable funding for infrastructure, and Mr. Menicoche would be very disappointed if I didn’t raise Highw

Question 49-16(6): Potential Shutdown Of Imperial Oil Operations In Norman Wells  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The issue of natural gas supply in the municipality of Norman Wells has been a concern raised by the community for quite a few years now, as far back as the 14th Assembly. It became a very serious concern as Imperial Oil had indicated during the life of

Question 49-16(6): Potential Shutdown Of Imperial Oil Operations In Norman Wells  Within our government we have the Ministerial Energy Coordinating Committee and through that committee we’ve set up a subcommittee that involves many of the departments across our government that deal with this issue that Norman Wells is facing. The chair of that subcommittee is

Question 49-16(6): Potential Shutdown Of Imperial Oil Operations In Norman Wells  The community of Norman Wells has not reached that stage where they have put a price tag, nor have they reached the point where they are deciding, or in a position to decide, whether they are going to go with propane or heating fuel. There is a lot of discussion that has to tak

Question 49-16(6): Potential Shutdown Of Imperial Oil Operations In Norman Wells  It’s not within my area of responsibility to declare emergencies within the municipalities. That falls under a different department. I can confirm to the Member that we have been actively involved with the municipality. We have people on the ground. Our assistant deputy minister

Committee Motion 1-16(6): Concurrence Of Td 7-16(6), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 6, 2010-2011, Carried  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Our capital budget for last year was at an historic high of $292 million. We are planning to carry or requesting to carry $72 million of that amount over. We successfully delivered $220 million worth of projects last year. Of the $72 million which is a

Committee Motion 1-16(6): Concurrence Of Td 7-16(6), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 6, 2010-2011, Carried  Mr. Chairman, the Member is correct that the bulk of the dollars earmarked for investment along the Dettah access road has been carried over. We’ve been working with the development corporation out of the community, which is the economic arm of the Yellowknives Dene First Nations

Committee Motion 1-16(6): Concurrence Of Td 7-16(6), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 6, 2010-2011, Carried  Mr. Chairman, we did have some discussions with the federal government with the former Minister of Infrastructure, Mr. Chuck Strahl, and identified I think it’s five projects that we expected we’d have challenges in getting completed. Most of these projects were substantially c

Committee Motion 1-16(6): Concurrence Of Td 7-16(6), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 6, 2010-2011, Carried  Mr. Chairman, there are two questions I think being posed here. First of all on the dollars identified here for a little over $1 million as to what it would be for, the building and the site works are substantially complete for this facility. We anticipate we’re going to have an

Committee Motion 1-16(6): Concurrence Of Td 7-16(6), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 6, 2010-2011, Carried  Mr. Chairman, this facility is a little different and the discussions with my staff indicate that the payback would be a little bit longer. We anticipate it will be around seven years to have this payback. We think it’s still a good investment and worthy of moving forward with.

Committee Motion 1-16(6): Concurrence Of Td 7-16(6), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 6, 2010-2011, Carried  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think I just answered that in my last response. I’ll respond again. The combined services building is substantially complete. We anticipate we’re going to have an official opening by sometime maybe in August. These dollars are to address some of the o

Committee Motion 1-16(6): Concurrence Of Td 7-16(6), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 6, 2010-2011, Carried  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The decision to convert a number of our facilities in Norman Wells is part of the long-term plan to reduce some of the stress that is being placed on the community and the availability of natural gas. Our plan is to move away from natural gas to leave an