Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Since 2001.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There are three.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, and then we have some proposal-driven projects. We do the projects if they're funded, and we don't if we don't get funded.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Some of them are a little bit more advanced in working directly with industry and they're feeling that they want to go directly into negotiation rather than learning. We make all our information available to them anyway, so they're a little bit farther advanced than the other communities.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, we are accumulating that information and passing it on to the communities. It is posted on our website and in our newsletters. They are hoping to make an announcement in July. The community is a bit nervous right now because we don't feel as prepared as we should be.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  For construction, they are at the pre-filing application stage. Whoever is awarded that will go into the preparation for construction. We met with one of the proponents the other day, and they feel it will be a minimum of five years from this week.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That hasn't been confirmed yet, but they're looking at northern Alberta from Prudhoe Bay.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We are asking to meet with them. We did a preliminary business plan on things we need to go forward prior to this project being announced. We've already lost four years. The Canadian government has funded the Mackenzie Valley project and the aboriginal working group to the tune of $32 million over a five-year period.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In our business plan, we wanted to do the guidelines project, for which CEAA has managed to give us $104,000, so that is an ongoing project. Then we received a little bit of funding from the northern strategy.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We're asking for support of our APC office, for starters, and not only from Canada but from the Yukon government and industry, so that there is a continuation. For the communities, we're asking for one position in each community so that we have continuity in communications.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Right now we only have three staff members. Pearl is one. Then we have someone who does our communications and research for us, and an office manager. We do receive support from the Yukon government by an annual contribution of $200,000. We have written proposals to some of the INAC programming, and we did receive $104,000 for a guidelines project that was information for our communities going forward.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. One is TransCanada. It is at the pre-application stage. The other is Denali. TransCanada is a well-known pipeline company that builds pipelines across this country and around the world. The other proponent, Denali, is actually the producers group that owns the gas.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  They are both competing in a filing application process, and they are going through the regulatory process and the application process. Governments will decide through FERC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in the United States, which is the federal environmental regulation commission.