Natural Resources committee  I asked a question of a number of deputies in this government as to why the major projects office south of 60 works and it seems to be making a difference in the process. The answer I got from all of them at the deputies committee was that they're all embarrassed to come in and a

Natural Resources committee  It doesn't become the concern of the deputy of the environment or the deputy in AANDC as directly in the north as it appears to be in the south. I don't know all of the mechanisms as to why that hasn't happened and the governance differences that have led it to be successful in t

Natural Resources committee  I think, in the first instance, Mr. Anderson, we would want to look at the local situation. If you take the area in Nunavut we work in, for instance, the six communities closest to us have a mean age of between 18 and 24. The wave in the birth rate coming in behind that is substa

Natural Resources committee  It is, and the example I would use would be the Tlicho people, the Dogrib people in the Northwest Territories. I was involved with BHP in the construction of Ekati. The first time we went out to give scholarships in 1995, there was one Tlicho citizen in post-secondary education.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Probably the fastest thing that could happen is.... When the original budgets were set out for organizations like the Nunavut Impact Review Board and the Nunavut Water Board, the assumption was that at any given time there would be one or two major proje

Natural Resources committee  I have direct experience with it, having worked on a project in Alaska. When you bring a project proposal forward, the first thing that happens is the State of Alaska appoints a project manager for it. The second thing that happens is that all of the responsible agencies sit down

Natural Resources committee  It does work. In the Alaskan system, there is proponent funding for part of that process, and that's based on agreement over a schedule. That process does work quite well.

Natural Resources committee  Mr. Chairman, honourable members of the committee, thank you for allowing us to speak this afternoon. Newmont Mining Corporation is a global producer of gold. We have operations in the United States, Australia, Peru, Indonesia, Ghana, Canada, New Zealand, and Mexico, employing s