Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I've brought copies of my presentation for you to hand out.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  French and English, yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Okay. First of all, thank you, Chair and committee members, for inviting me to represent Qulliq Energy Corporation at this committee. I'll give you a bit of background about Qulliq Energy Corporation. We are the electrical supplier for Nunavut. We operate in 25 communities wi

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. You're right, indeed. I'll clarify it in terms of the shipping. In some communities, such as Iqaluit, we'll get three or four resupply ships during the shipping season. A lot of the northern communities won't get that. They'll typically get a single s

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In Iqaluit we have almost a sufficient resupply there, and when you take into consideration that Iqaluit is the seat of the territory for our federal governments in Nunavut, and a lot of our companies use it as their base.... Logistically, it's a gateway into Baffin Island, so th

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the question, Marc. In terms of alternative energy, yes, we've experimented with wind energy, limited to two or three different locations. Some of the challenges or barriers we identified actually led to the failure of those projects. We have put wind energy in pla

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the question first, Niki, and I agree with some of the comments that Greg has made. From our perspective, from a resupplier shipping, some of the issues that are critical in terms of having a single resupply is that the resupply doesn't come until the ice is gone a

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm from Labrador myself, so I'm familiar with your area. Certainly I've worked in Labrador hydro. From a subsidy perspective, residential customers have a subsidy, and it's seasonal. During the summer months, the first 700 kilowatt hours have a subsidy applied to them. Then, in

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Right now, it's zero. We run a power plant of three small engines in Nanisivik for the runway, which is utilized by Arctic Bay until the Government of Nunavut gets its airport up and running in Arctic Bay. So the population is zero in Nanisivik.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I certainly can. In terms of fuel resupply, we tend to err on the side of having extra as opposed to having less. As a utility, we haven't run short. It's a little complicated in Nunavut, because we don't have bulk storage in all of our communities, so we rely on the petroleum p

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's just from the perspective that it may be the first sealift resupply ship that's going to get in.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In Iqaluit this year our first sealift resupply ship is not going to get there until the first part of July. Typically the first ship to hit Nunavut is in Iqaluit. The volume of resupply in Iqaluit is such that the ship can hit probably only one or two more communities before i

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Absolutely.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The biggest effect we're noticing in terms of climate change is changes in the permafrost, which is affecting infrastructure that's already there. In places where we never saw the ground warm up sufficiently to cause us trouble with shifting, we now see that from time to time in

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In terms of Qulliq Energy, we typically are asked to pay under the same normal terms, as net 30 days of whatever we have negotiated. So we have to purchase in advance because of the short construction season and because of the resupply aspects. So we'll purchase and pay for and n