Evidence of meeting #13 for Government Operations and Estimates in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was company.
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Liberal
Siobhan Coady Liberal St. John's South—Mount Pearl, NL
What is RLP's technology? This is the one that I think was submitted to Mr. Prentice--
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Chief Executive Officer, International Strategic Investments
This was. This is the removal of mercury--
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Liberal
Siobhan Coady Liberal St. John's South—Mount Pearl, NL
Do they do business in Alberta? What do they do?
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Chief Executive Officer, International Strategic Investments
Basically it's the process to remove mercury through carbon emissions. It's a fairly extensive sort of technology that allows you to take the burning of coal in coal-burning plants and reduce the amount of mercury that's coming out of them significantly.
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Liberal
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Chief Executive Officer, International Strategic Investments
It's a very novel technology based on the cost of it. This is a very expensive process and you can only get so much done. This allows you to do it much cheaper and get a lot more of the mercury out of it.
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Liberal
Siobhan Coady Liberal St. John's South—Mount Pearl, NL
What was occurring between October 12 and November 3, where there's a flurry around this RLP?
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Chief Executive Officer, International Strategic Investments
Remember, you're seeing a reference to e-mails back and forth, right? So you're saying that Glémaud sent me five e-mails and I'm giving you every date and every e-mail he sent. Maybe he was eager to get something done. I don't know.
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Liberal
Siobhan Coady Liberal St. John's South—Mount Pearl, NL
He was eager to get something done?
Okay. Thank you.
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Chief Executive Officer, International Strategic Investments
You're welcome.
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Conservative
The Vice-Chair Conservative Chris Warkentin
Thanks, Ms. Coady.
We will now move to our committee business. We're going to move in camera.
Thank you, Mr. Gillani, for appearing.
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Chief Executive Officer, International Strategic Investments
Thank you very much.
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Conservative
The Vice-Chair Conservative Chris Warkentin
We'll now suspend for three minutes.
[Proceedings continue in camera]