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Natural Resources committee Let me start and others can join in. I'm glad you brought up the Ring of Fire. Basically, that's a major opportunity, but we've had an impasse. We need to move more quickly on these kinds of developments. If we can't unlock that logjam, and there's federal-provincial and inter-ministerial...it's a quagmire in terms of getting a permit to mine.
October 25th, 2016Committee meeting
Vic Pakalnis
Natural Resources committee It's solvable.
October 25th, 2016Committee meeting
Vic Pakalnis
Natural Resources committee You're right.
October 25th, 2016Committee meeting
Vic Pakalnis
Natural Resources committee You're right though. There are emerging manufacturers—
October 25th, 2016Committee meeting
Vic Pakalnis
Natural Resources committee Yes, sorry.
October 25th, 2016Committee meeting
Vic Pakalnis
Natural Resources committee First of all, I'm a mining engineer. I'm a rock mechanics engineer. In fact, I specialize in that kind of area. Nuclear waste disposal is not an issue. We could dispose of the nuclear waste very easily. The problem is social. Where are you going to put it? Nobody wants it in their backyard.
October 25th, 2016Committee meeting
Vic Pakalnis
Natural Resources committee The first thing is we're a bilingual university, tri-cultural. We have a very strong aboriginal program at Laurentian. As far as the programs go, we're talking about access. We're developing those, trying to get more of that. Our primary target is of course northern Ontario. The ministry of aboriginal affairs gave us the $5 million over two years to help with developing capacity within the first nations.
October 25th, 2016Committee meeting
Vic Pakalnis
Natural Resources committee There is no doubt that we're going from diesel to electric. Diesel particulate matter is a known carcinogen, and we have to move from diesel underground to all electric. There are a number of companies that are already starting to supply different types of scooptrams and a variety of different vehicles.
October 25th, 2016Committee meeting
Vic Pakalnis
Natural Resources committee How are you going to make sure you have first nations people among the students you have?
October 25th, 2016Committee meeting
Vic Pakalnis
Natural Resources committee It's how you're going to use the Canada first excellence research fund to further exploration in Canada. How are you going to use that?
October 25th, 2016Committee meeting
Vic Pakalnis
Natural Resources committee Thanks for picking that out. It's very sharp. Nuclear energy costs five times less than diesel. Did you know that? Diesel creates greenhouse gases; nuclear doesn't. Last night I was talking with Bruce Power about a research project on small modular nuclear batteries, so to speak, 20 to 30 megawatts, where you can put them in a small mining operation.
October 25th, 2016Committee meeting
Vic Pakalnis
Natural Resources committee First of all, it has to be on many levels. There has to be revenue sharing with the first nations community both federally and provincially. I know that we're looking at it through the Mining Association of Canada and also the Ontario Mining Association has recommendations to the Ontario government on this subject.
October 25th, 2016Committee meeting
Vic Pakalnis
Natural Resources committee We have about 3,000 manufacturers, suppliers; this is SAMSSA and CAMESE. They could be doubling, tripling their exports. Some of the stuff takes time to develop. They don't have the resources individually, and if there were some money, some bank, some source of funding to commercialize some of the research we've already done....
October 25th, 2016Committee meeting
Vic Pakalnis
Natural Resources committee We can learn from other countries, absolutely, but maybe they can learn from us as well. There are some interesting things that I learned at the World Mining Congress, which just happened last week in Rio. With the UN sustainable development goals and all the discussions happening there, we have some unique kinds of things to offer the world.
October 25th, 2016Committee meeting
Vic Pakalnis
Natural Resources committee Good day, bonjour, Mr. Chair and honourable members. Thank you for the opportunity to speak on the urgent matters confronting the mining industry in Canada. There are going to be three areas, which I will develop in my presentation, that I would like you to consider. The first one is the government's role in supporting one of Canada's key economic drivers.
October 25th, 2016Committee meeting
Vic Pakalnis