Finance committee  I would just add that carbon capture and sequestration matters. It has been supported and it needs continuing support. What hasn't been getting the attention it needs is, as I say, the community side of the energy equation. We think there are things that can be done there at rela

Finance committee  I would start with where you use the most of it. The biggest single place where we use natural gas is in heating in residential and commercial applications. A lot of the equipment we're using today is relatively low efficiency compared to what's available in the marketplace, whic

Finance committee  Potentially, yes. I think you may hear more about that from my colleagues with the Canadian Natural Gas Vehicle Alliance later in your hearings. The most obvious place for using natural gas is in what you call the return-to-base fleets. These are urban fleets--buses, waste haul

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I represent the Canadian Gas Association, which is the downstream end of the natural gas industry in Canada--in other words, the part of it that deals directly with customers. However, we also work very closely with our upstream partners along the natura

Natural Resources committee  Yes. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Briefly, it is being distributed free of charge to all community, university, and school libraries across Canada. It is a history of the Gas Association, but it's also a history of energy in Canada, really, over the last hundred years. And

Natural Resources committee  Thank you.

Natural Resources committee  I would just add a couple of points to that. The standards example, where there is a clear federal role, is a good one because of the economies of scale of being able to do the thinking and because there is federal jurisdiction going to anything that transfers across borders, w

Natural Resources committee  A way to come at it, basically, is that you need to have the clearest set of signals possible for consumers, so they make the most efficient choice overall. Now, I stress this is “overall”. If you look at the whole system, as opposed to the individual building, in other words, at

Natural Resources committee  Sure. That's a very good point and something the committee needs to think about. The way to think about the supply of natural gas is in a North American context as opposed to a Canadian context. Indeed, in order to ensure the natural gas we're going to need in North America ove

Natural Resources committee  I'm not sure I precisely understood the question in terms of inability to bring the gas.

Natural Resources committee  There is some loss in the system; it's fairly small and it's being dealt with. It's money flowing through the pipeline, so you look for every opportunity you can find to reduce those losses. There is also a lot of energy used to move the gas. Gas has a fairly low energy density,

Natural Resources committee  Mr. Chairman, perhaps I could add a couple of things to Mr. Konow's points. This may be of interest and of use to the committee. Until recently I was co-chair of the Energy Efficiency Working Group, mandated by the federal government to develop a set of principles on how to app

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have a short deck that I believe has been distributed to members of the committee, and I was going to use it to speak to you. Let me start by—

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much. I'll try to step through this reasonably quickly, because I'm aware of the time. On page 2, there are a couple of points worth noting. I want to start by congratulating the committee on your choice of this subject. There's been a lot of time spent in the

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Timeframe is critical, and in the very short timeframe of the next four to five years, for most industries the only option is some sort of offset or external credit, because you can't make the physical reductions--