Natural Resources committee  I take it your question is more on the domestic side, but I think a lot of it comes down to preference. Some folks really like oil and there's an established business sector there. I think as the information gets out around modern pellet systems that are available.... The amount

Natural Resources committee  I think it would be a dramatic improvement from the current situation. The opportunities, I think, are there. We haven't been able to.... There have been several leaders on the wood pellet side and the forest products side that have come to the territory. They keep running into t

Natural Resources committee  Yes, the bulk of the opportunity is isolated.

Natural Resources committee  Thanks for identifying what was a very exciting summertime for us here in the territory last year for morel mushroom picking. For those who didn't know—it's a pretty transient work source and it's hard to get the numbers—we're looking at $3 million to $5 million of economic activ

Natural Resources committee  Yes, good afternoon. It's Lyle Dinn here. What really happened in the territorial renewal of 2003 was devolution. Yukon now exercises complete control over its forest resources, so the decision-making is here and it's local. That, in and of itself, along with the completion of o

Natural Resources committee  In the Yukon, so far the support has been pretty limited. It's not similar to NWT, but we have had funding from CanNor on inventory projects associated with the territories. We have benefited over the last three years, but with a different sort of model, and not to the extent nor

Natural Resources committee  In some ways, yes.

Natural Resources committee  I just want to echo the comment from the Northwest Territories around the economies of scale. Some of those comments are really the Yukon flavour at this point in time. We do have one infrastructure heating project in Dawson City, which has a central heating system, and it benefi

Natural Resources committee  Not to my knowledge. We haven't reached out to a company like that, but we're in the early stages of biomass strategy. We'll be seeking a number of inputs into that strategy, and that'll include commentary on technology and intellectual property.

Natural Resources committee  How was the biomass strategy developed? Let me try to emphasize the objective of the strategy. With that tremendous amount of importing of fossil fuel, the Yukon is looking very hard at the underutilized wood resource to capture and maintain some of that money that is leaving the

Natural Resources committee  Yes. The Skagway terminal is in the engineering phase. My understanding is they are looking heavily at several mines developing in the Yukon for the export of ore. They are not looking at a container type of development, but it has more to do with a bulk cargo ore terminal upgrad

Natural Resources committee  I think the current demand in the Yukon for pellets—and I'm not in charge of this so it's an estimated figure—is roughly around 2,000 to 3,000 tonnes for domestic and commercial use. But that market has tremendous opportunity for growth. During my presentation I mentioned that

Natural Resources committee  I wanted to identify that in the Yukon we have more extreme fire behaviour years but also years of low fire behaviour. It's almost getting more episodic in terms of what we're seeing, but the overall trend of forest fire behaviour in the Yukon is increasing. What that has done i

Natural Resources committee  The Yukon has a contribution agreement with FPInnovations. In part of that, they support us with technical advice related to market development and all things to do with developing a biomass industry. One of the main components that we are most recently discussing with them is th

Natural Resources committee  Yes. The nearest port is Skagway, Alaska, which is about 150 kilometres south of Whitehorse. There's also a port in Haines, Alaska. Neither of these ports have the infrastructure to deal with the export of wood products from Yukon, and the Haines port is 400 kilometres from White