Evidence of meeting #41 for Natural Resources in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was water.
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Conservative
Dick Harris Conservative Cariboo—Prince George, BC
So the only one left is the NDP, really. Do you have confidence in them?
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Coordinator, British Columbia Tap Water Alliance
If I might, there was a proposal in November 1994 by the commission on resources and environment commissioner, and what he wanted to enact was legislation that allowed the public to get involved with land-use policy, and he said that they had a legislative right to do so.
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Conservative
Dick Harris Conservative Cariboo—Prince George, BC
I was looking for a succinct answer, but I want to move on.
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Conservative
Dick Harris Conservative Cariboo—Prince George, BC
Mr. Wall, you talked about recycling the water. I think that's an important thing, because technology is moving at breakneck speed, as I understand, in the oil and gas business. I do know of apparatuses now that can take the drilling mud, for example, and turn it into a solid waste, which is easier to dispose of, recapture the water, and then use it again. Where is the recycling technology? Have you got a long way to go, or do you figure you're just about there?
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President, Apache Canada Ltd
You have to remember we're pumping this fluid, frack fluids, and we can take some contaminants. We can take high salt content; we don't have to have pure water. So we have the facility set there now that can actually knock out a little bit of the hydrogen sulfide, clean up the water a bit for solids, and it's pumpable water for us. We can use it in our frack fluids.
I think as far as the technology in what we need is concerned, we're there, or pretty close.
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Conservative
Dick Harris Conservative Cariboo—Prince George, BC
All right, great. You have a lot of confidence in that technology?
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Conservative
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Leon Benoit
Thank you, Mr. Harris and Mr. Anderson.
Thank you very much to all three witnesses. It was a very interesting meeting and very helpful to us in our studies. Thank you all for coming.
The meeting is adjourned.