Natural Resources committee  Yes.

Natural Resources committee  Storage will be a game-changer for us. In Inuvik right now, if you set your clock on a Sunday and go back to look at that clock on the following Sunday—a week's time—that clock will have a eight-minute difference; the hertz is actually what that is. As for the way it's done, they

Natural Resources committee  The Nihtat Gwich'in were able to secure both feasibility studies of the wind project. I'm going to give you another example of the value added that we bring as a community. I think this is the really important part. As part of the feasibility study, we needed to put up a meteor

Natural Resources committee  The Nihtat Gwich'in have basically tasked me with looking at all different types of renewable options. Like I said in my earlier comments, Inuvik has sun for basically 24 hours a day for two and a half months, and it's there all the time. It's consistently good. In terms of sol

Natural Resources committee  I see a more diversified energy picture in our north. I don't think electrical generation diesel will ever be not in the picture for our communities. Diesel just has so many advantages. It's transportable, it's shiftable, it's high butane. There are a lot of gigajoules per litre

Natural Resources committee  Yes.

Natural Resources committee  Raising the capital isn't the problem. The business case for the wind project is fantastic. It's a good, solid business case. It's the way the system is set up as the territorial governments administer it. There isn't an opportunity for us to even be at the table with them and ha

Natural Resources committee  Using the Mackenzie Valley gas project as the example, to the north of the Gwich'in are the Inuvialuit. They would have received the majority of the jobs. To address that, we went back and looked at the equity position. In my comments, there was the allotment of the 33%. While

Natural Resources committee  For the situation with the caribou, it's not all indigenous. The Gwich'in nation as a whole have opposed the development of the drilling in ANWR, but there are different indigenous groups within Alaska that have that view as well. That being said, too, for the Mackenzie gas proje

Natural Resources committee  Right now we're looking at doing the two commercial properties. Inuvik is a small microgrid. It's only about 3.4 megawatts. It's not a huge community; there are only 3,200 people. That being said, how much greenhouse gas we emit per capita far exceeds the rest of Canada because

Natural Resources committee  While the Mackenzie gas project did fail in the end—it didn't come to fruition—a lot of different factors played a role. That being said, the Gwich'in gained a lot of capacity. When you look at the Inuvik wind project, for example, the Government of Northwest Territories put ou

Natural Resources committee  I think the big difference in that project was the first nations came with money behind them. Right now, our wind turbine project in Inuvik is completely funded by the GNWT and by the federal government. There is no room for us in the way that the system was set up. We're literal

Natural Resources committee  The utility would be the primary market. The end-users will be the Gwich'in population. We'll be the end-users of that energy being created.

Natural Resources committee  Yes, Inuvik is a microgrid situation, so the primary population of Inuvik are Gwich'in and Inuvialuit people.

Natural Resources committee  The bilateral agreements between the federal government and the Government of the Northwest Territories are where we need to start, because those agreements don't really address indigenous engagement and involvement in the projects. That comes after those agreements are signed, a