Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Chair.

Natural Resources committee  I have one comment on your question, Mr. McLeod. I can say right from the outset that you get on the land at the planning and permitting stage, when you're literally having no impact but walking the land, and already consultation and discussion with the communities start. With

Natural Resources committee  I was excited that you asked that, so I forgot. You actually have a net-net decrease in electricity when you run electric equipment. It's always better to deploy electric equipment for the consumption of electricity because of this reduction in ventilation. I spoke about it ear

Natural Resources committee  Thankfully, we do have an incentive to get off that. We also have about 12 megs of backup generation there. There is incentive to get off because the power on the grid is cheaper.

Natural Resources committee  I sound like a broken record a little bit on this, but we really rely.... We think that the social licence to operate—that's not my favourite term—which really is granted, denied, given, or withheld, I'm not going to use the C-word, occurs on the ground with the community. We wor

Natural Resources committee  I don't think it's a simple answer here because, even if you look at the regulatory process itself, as I was mentioning earlier, it's not only about the impacts of a proponent's project on communities, it mixes in all sorts of issues. There is historical legacy, community concern

Natural Resources committee  On this one, it's an expansion project that's going to push the life of the mine out another three or four years. You're looking at 811 jobs for an extra three or four years, and another million ounces in gold production, so it's significant. Due to the limitations on that line

Natural Resources committee  I can translate. Pierre had mentioned four areas: sustainability, first nations engagement, biodiversity, and energy. He wants comments on how the government can support those areas with respect to mining in Saskatchewan.

Natural Resources committee  Do you mean upstream, from our suppliers?

Natural Resources committee  Like our natural gas distributors?

Natural Resources committee  Yes, we'll be paying in Quebec as of 2017. We've been budgeting for...We've had a carbon price for some time now. If there was certainty over that price of carbon, that would be helpful. Even in Ontario, the framework goes out to 2020 and then, after that, it's a question mark. R

Natural Resources committee  Right now, this is a transmission or distribution-connected solution. At a remote mine that would be a fly-in and fly-out camp, like the Éléonore mine, without a transmission line, with this current configuration, I don't think so. Essentially, you need backup generation with die

Natural Resources committee  Yes, at this point. A lot of the opportunities that go across northwestern Ontario are untapped, not just because of electricity and transmission but also roads, and to be able to access those areas. Infrastructure is a big thing just to access the economic opportunity, and also

Natural Resources committee  If I go back to what I said in the presentation around accelerating commercialization and adoption, I think, Sudbury, in particular, and Rouyn-Noranda, are places that have come along in terms of the evolution of the industry. As things have changed, because of the skills that ar

Natural Resources committee  We're fed off northwestern Ontario. If you talk about the energy supply...and there's little in northwestern Ontario. We're in northwestern Ontario, in Red Lake and in Musselwhite. That's a 400-kilometre, what they call, single radial line. It goes out 30 times a year. It's very