Natural Resources committee  There are the parameters. If a person wants to go somewhere and set up a camp for 10 or 15 people, he should know he has to have so much for washroom facilities and so forth. All of these parameters should be outlined so that if a person wants to set up a 10-man camp he will know

Natural Resources committee  And you wouldn't get these questions after the fact. At my little placer mine in the Yukon, they wanted me to haul everything out for the washroom, and I ended up putting in a full septic system. But I had to do that on my own. It wasn't defined for me.

Natural Resources committee  That's right. And it's easy to do, because ultimately they end up there.

Natural Resources committee  Yes, that's for sure. These little camps have grown in size because of legislative things that people have to do. They can't function with a small operation, with the limited time or anything else.

Natural Resources committee  In my opinion, the reason there aren't more roads is because most companies model in the cost of the fastest, quickest way, with the idea that it wouldn't matter what they wanted to do, they aren't going to get a permit to do it. I think the Cumberland project, and ultimately Ag

Natural Resources committee  When you build a house, you go to the county, and they'll give you a list of things you have to follow—your engineering and building permits, all the different permits and stuff.

Natural Resources committee  There is not, to my knowledge. There are major things, but what this actually means.... I don't know that anybody has really defined those things. I don't think there is a hard and fast definition of the actual procedures. You can't define the time it's going to take, so the fact

Natural Resources committee  You have to understand, I'm not intricately involved, other than in my own personal thing. It seems to me that it's a wandering kind of process that goes through. One company in the Yukon, for example, Western Copper and Gold Corporation, went through the whole process. At the la

Natural Resources committee  Are you speaking of me personally or of the company? The variety of areas that I work in go from the west coast of Alaska to the north and east coast of Baffin Island, which encompasses all of Canada. We work...I shouldn't say in spasmodic fashion, but we do a big project here

Natural Resources committee  Probably the biggest difficulty...and it goes along with the time necessary to do the permitting and stuff. For the Baffinland job, for example, we would process material in March and April and send it to Montreal. It would wait for the boat, and the boat would take it up there.

Natural Resources committee  My understanding of the airship is that the problem becomes ballast. If you dump 20 tonnes or 50 tonnes, then of course you have to either load it up or recompress your buoyancy gas. So it's probably not without a lot of flaws, and it has taken a long time. Of course, hydrogen, w

Natural Resources committee  No. Basically I've been servicing the Arctic, and that's not pipelines but tanks and plate work.

Natural Resources committee  I would have to say that on either end of any pipeline there's a storage facility that may involve me, but typically I've been working with the mines.

Natural Resources committee  I think what's lacking is a finely tuned process where instead of doing it step by step by step, one can do it at the same time. It's going to take some time to establish, but we need a set formula whereby each company can go through the proper procedures and expect a proper outc

Natural Resources committee  Whether it be a mining or a pipeline project or a road, or whatever, it should have a formula that is followed wherein certain things are submitted to the board and they assess them. I don't think the actual nature of the project has much to do with it. There are things such as s