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December 13, 2012
News Releases

 YELLOWKNIFE (December 13, 2012) – ­The Northwest Territories (NWT) Species at Risk Committee has released the results of the 2012 Species Assessments.

December 12, 2012
Ministers' Statements and Speeches

December 12, 2012  

 
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Good afternoon

 NWT Devolution Process and Update

November 26, 2012
News Releases

Yellowknife (November 26, 2012) The co-chairs of the Northwest Territories - Alberta Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for Cooperation and Development met in Yellowknife today to discuss the environment, economy, energy, transportation and advanced education and employment.

November 22, 2012
Ministers' Statements and Speeches

Good evening ladies and gentlemen.  Thank you Chief Sangris for your welcome and opening remarks.

November 22, 2012
Ministers' Statements and Speeches

Thank you everyone for coming this evening and taking some time to have a discussion prior to the Charrette.  I am pleased to be joined by Minister Ramsay and Minister Miltenberger who both sit with me as members of the Ministerial Energy Coordinating and Climate Change Committee-of-Cabinet.

November 21, 2012
News Releases

YELLOWKNIFE (November 21, 2012) – Two new GNWT strategies will increase the use of biomass and solar energy in the Northwest Territories.

November 6, 2012
Ministers' Statements and Speeches

 Mr. Speaker, I rise in the House today to update the people of the Northwest Territories on the status of the barren-ground caribou and the condition of the various herds.

October 31, 2012
Ministers' Statements and Speeches

Mr. Speaker, the anthrax outbreak this summer in the Mackenzie Bison Range was the largest we have experienced in Northern Canada. 

At least one-third of the Mackenzie wood bison herd was lost and included bulls, cows and calves.

October 24, 2012
Ministers' Statements and Speeches

Mr. Speaker, the 2012 forest fire season is officially over. 

October 11, 2012
News Releases

YELLOWKNIFE (October 11, 2012) – The Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) has exceeded its greenhouse gas emissions target. The 2007 NWT Greenhouse Gas Strategy set a target to reduce emissions from GNWT operations to 10 percent below 2001 levels by the year 2011.

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