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Natural Resources committee The barriers are falling. I think that in the next decade or two decades we're really going to see things change. The aboriginal people of the Northwest Territories are going to start becoming a serious economic force. It took time. Lack of ownership of the land is a serious im
December 5th, 2011Committee meeting
Glen Sibbeston
Natural Resources committee If that's a five-year process and a fifteen-year life of a resource, for instance—that's fairly common—then the investment's not looking so good anymore, is it? You're going to have a third of your transportation paid for already before your infrastructure comes on.
December 5th, 2011Committee meeting
Glen Sibbeston
Natural Resources committee I have no idea of the background on that. But it came out of the regulations that go with the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act.
December 5th, 2011Committee meeting
Glen Sibbeston
Natural Resources committee That's a federal act.
December 5th, 2011Committee meeting
Glen Sibbeston
Natural Resources committee I observe these things. I don't really wonder where they come from. I do have opinions, though. I mean, 400 man-days is a four-person tent over a 100-day summer season. So if you want something bigger than that, you need to get a class B land-use permit. You're not talking about
December 5th, 2011Committee meeting
Glen Sibbeston
Natural Resources committee They've been at this now for about 12 years; maybe the longest is the Gwitchin. I don't know exactly. They may have enough experience in granting land-use licences that they would be willing to work with the federal government to set higher thresholds. We need something everybody
December 5th, 2011Committee meeting
Glen Sibbeston
Natural Resources committee We're really just getting started with the north, exploring it and developing it. As technologies like the Discovery Air airship come on.... Technologies are being developed in the northern Alberta oil field for roads that rely on a certain amount of buoyancy, with geo-textiles
December 5th, 2011Committee meeting
Glen Sibbeston
Natural Resources committee Yes. It just takes more money up there.
December 5th, 2011Committee meeting
Glen Sibbeston
Natural Resources committee It just takes more money, and it's such an enormous area of land with such fantastic resources that the little explorers have to be given the freedom and latitude to go and have a look to find out what's there. Then it has to be reasonably expensive to investigate the promising f
December 5th, 2011Committee meeting
Glen Sibbeston
Natural Resources committee I typically don't deal directly with the licensing functions. I just haven't observed them.
December 5th, 2011Committee meeting
Glen Sibbeston
Natural Resources committee There absolutely is. I see it on the ground with things that we're required to do—even objects that I'm required to move—that aren't essential to the operation but are required. For instance, with a class B licence, you're only allowed to have 4,000 litres of fuel in one location
December 5th, 2011Committee meeting
Glen Sibbeston
Natural Resources committee People are innovative. They do things to work within the regulations they have to follow.
December 5th, 2011Committee meeting
Glen Sibbeston
Natural Resources committee I believe I am the only one. I'm the chief pilot.
December 5th, 2011Committee meeting
Glen Sibbeston
Natural Resources committee I'm talking with a young man from Cambridge Bay, a 100-hour pilot. You have to appreciate that a helicopter pilot is a long way up the skills ladder, so you really have to be careful who you send out with your million-dollar machine and your best customer. It doesn't necessarily
December 5th, 2011Committee meeting
Glen Sibbeston
Natural Resources committee The whole of Nunavut was settled in one claim in 1999. In the Northwest Territories there are seven claim areas. Four have been settled and three are outstanding. The three that are outstanding are probably about half of the Northwest Territories.
December 5th, 2011Committee meeting
Glen Sibbeston