Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for that, Mayor Spence. I'm going to go to Councillor Jacobson. Do you have a plan like the one Churchill has? Is that something that—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  And you're looking for partners to invest. Okay, so there is a plan. Also, I've been informed that the Minister of Northern Affairs and the Government of the Northwest Territories reached an agreement to review the moratorium two weeks ago. Were you aware of that?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  A new process is being put in place for consultation and how that's going to go about. Are you satisfied with having a review of the moratorium?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Okay. Thank you.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  She's trying to cut me off.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Mayor Gruben, you talked a lot about the ban on drilling in the Beaufort Sea. How much work got done between the early 2000s and 2014 in the Beaufort Sea? I'm reading an article here that says Royal Dutch Shell and a couple of other companies pulled out.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  They were there up to 2007.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Okay. So they left after 2007.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  How much drilling is happening on the Alaskan side?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I imagine it's extremely expensive to operate oil and gas wells in the Beaufort or anywhere in the Arctic. I'm from northwestern Ontario. I know that operating mines in northwestern Ontario is much more expensive than operating a mine in, say, northern Minnesota, which isn't that

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Okay. Has the region, or the Northwest Territories government or the hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk, prepared any other plans? I've been listening to Mayor Spence from Churchill, and I had a brief conversation. I know the chair represents Manitoba. It's actually music to my ears to hea

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's a bundled project. It's $1.2 billion for fibre and for transmission?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Have you looked at other solutions to providing renewable energy in the communities? Has that been done?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you to all the presenters for coming, and for coming as far as you had to come. I'm going to be sharing my time with the member for Nunavut, Mr. Tootoo, but before that I have just one question. It is a question I asked NRCan officials here the other day. You're talking a

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's what I'm getting at. I think we need to be innovative. One of the questions rolling through my head had to do with the Arctic policy framework and looking at providing energy and all the other things these communities need in terms of transportation, food supply and housi