Natural Resources committee  I can tell you that we in the government of the NWT certainly see the use of biomass fuels eventually throughout the Northwest Territories. We see the possibility to use this fuel source wherever we can. Right now the emphasis has been placed on the southern part of the territori

Natural Resources committee  We recently had, in the summer of 2014, one of the worst fire seasons that we've had on record. We had drought conditions that proceeded right into the fall and at last count we had less snowfall, particularly in the Yellowknife region, than we did in an average year. With that a

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you for the question. As we outlined in our presentation, we have had some good success working with the federal government. There's been a significant amount of money invested but we see that continued investment is really needed. In the presenta

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good afternoon. My name is Evan Walz. I'm the acting assistant deputy minister for the Department of Environment and Natural Resources with the Government of the NWT. As you noted, I'm joined today by Mr. Frank Lepine, the director of forest management;