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May 15th, 2019Committee meeting
Sam Gull
Public Safety committee The main point for the power from the La Grande dams is to feed the data centres. It's the data centres that consume a lot of energy because of the size of these data centres. It doesn't take too many data centres to consume 200 megawatts, even though we have all the natural cool
May 15th, 2019Committee meeting
Sam Gull
Public Safety committee The fibre that's being connected now is in service. When the line goes to Japan and to England, it's going to stay in international waters. There are going to be two pipelines that are not going into the U.S. Those are the two pipelines we're interested in, to stay at an internat
May 15th, 2019Committee meeting
Sam Gull
Public Safety committee It all depends on our winters. The Northwest Passage still freezes. Their concern, too, is the timing of putting that line through the Northwest Passage. That's why they're doing that last. There are certain places where it's very shallow and with the icebergs they really have to
May 15th, 2019Committee meeting
Sam Gull
Public Safety committee Just to add to that, I think we know everybody who is coming into and out of the community. There's only one access road into Wemindji and one James Bay highway going north. They monitor everybody going in and out. On a road basis, it's very controllable. Wemindji, of course, has
May 15th, 2019Committee meeting
Sam Gull
Public Safety committee To add to that, from what we understand from our discussions, the line will be buried at least three feet in the seabed because of the icebergs. That was an issue. If we bury it underground, the submarines won't be able to find it or see it.
May 15th, 2019Committee meeting
Sam Gull
Public Safety committee I believe, as a Canadian, and as a Cree, that Canada has to do something, and build its own fibre. We know that the amount of information or data we use every year is increasing, and it will continue to increase. It's not ready to slow down. If we can't connect to Quintillion, I
May 15th, 2019Committee meeting
Sam Gull
Public Safety committee Meegwetch. [Witness spoke in Cree] [English] I want to thank you for inviting me to make this presentation. As you see on the screen here, the biggest problem that we have here in Canada is that all of our links are in the United States. We only have 11%, which are on the
May 15th, 2019Committee meeting
Sam Gull