Something that has been worked on at the University of Minnesota, on the Morris Campus, just south of Winnipeg, is the production of anhydrous ammonia fertilizer from wind energy. Although wind energy makes sense in Minnesota, because of the high cost of electricity, they're actually using a hydrolyzer to produce nitrogen, which they in turn use to produce fertilizer that can be sold to farmers. In Manitoba we have abundant hydroelectric power generated. In the hydro generation power system, there are times of the day when they have power they can't use. It becomes a real challenge for them. When you start producing fertilizer from electricity, it becomes like a battery.
We need research on those kinds of projects that can remove our dependence on buying fertilizer from outside our communities. We need to look at ways to use the assets in our province to alleviate a big right-now cost.