Natural Resources committee  Do you mean development of renewable energy projects?

Natural Resources committee  There are a lot, at least on the design board, in northern Ontario, and some in southern Ontario. If you look at the Ontario Power Authority planning maps—and there is a plan on the minister's desk that has not been moved to the Ontario Energy Board—there are a considerable num

Natural Resources committee  I think what the federal government could do to kick-start renewable energy is to go to the biggest source, which is the negawatt. The emphasis right now needs to be on conservation and efficiency. In the mining sector, there's tremendous potential for co-generation, the captur

Natural Resources committee  We really need integrated planning and integrated strategies. In northern Ontario we'll get an electricity supply plan crafted in Toronto with all the arrows moving south, to pull every electron south. What we don't have is an industrial strategy for northern Ontario, and I think

Natural Resources committee  I haven't seen such a plan or heard reference to such a plan, other than what you've just shared today. Most of the discussion I've heard in the mining sector has been around the effects of climate change on mining operations versus the contribution of mining operations to climat

Natural Resources committee  Yes. Taking too many shortcuts means you don't have a complete review. It means you have a narrow subset of a review where you look at some of the issues. For example, we've just completed a comprehensive study of the Detour Lake Gold Mine re-opening. It has been a paper exchange

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for the question. I can't reference anything in the literature around this, but I'll answer more from an observational perspective as a resident of northern Ontario. We've seen some of these takeovers recently. You've referenced the takeover of Inco by Vale Inco—now Va

Natural Resources committee  There are a number of things that should have happened before we ever got to this point, and they certainly need to happen now. One is that there needs to be a land use planning process led by the Matawa first nations, resulting in a land use plan and a land use strategy, includ

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members. I'm very pleased to be with you this afternoon. My name is Brennain Lloyd, and I am here on behalf of Northwatch. Northwatch is a public interest organization in northeastern Ontario. We were founded in 1988 to provide a regionally representati