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Industry committee If you spoke to our companies, they'd say many, but I'll certainly give you a couple of primary examples. One is certainly automotive steels. Dofasco and Stelco in particular are very strong. Secondly, another good example comes with respect to what are called old country tubula
November 2nd, 2006Committee meeting
Ron Watkins
Industry committee I think I've identified two that I would put there, but our companies are very good at what they do.
November 2nd, 2006Committee meeting
Ron Watkins
Industry committee I'm not sure I'd call them niche markets in the sense that a lot of industries would. It has more to do with specialized steel product. For example, one of the big developments in the steel industry over the last decade was the development of what is called the ultra-light steel
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Industry committee And I think we'll continue to see that specialization.
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Ron Watkins
Industry committee Again, we're firmly convinced that we can compete on a fair basis because of our production systems.
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Industry committee It's a major steel producer, yes.
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Ron Watkins
Industry committee It was before my time, but there were discussions several months ago. I wasn't involved in them personally, so I couldn't speak to you as to the nature or extent of those discussions.
November 2nd, 2006Committee meeting
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Industry committee The short answer is yes, it does. I think it has the double impact of not simply being better for the environment but also having some bottom-line consequence if we can figure out the way to do it. There have been issues in cogeneration. I don't speak with expertise in this area
November 2nd, 2006Committee meeting
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Industry committee It's a bit of an untested proposition, frankly. I think the general view would be, first of all, that programs that are more generally available and those focused on something like cogeneration clearly have a lot of different forms of public benefit associated with them. What we
November 2nd, 2006Committee meeting
Ron Watkins
Industry committee We've held pretty stable in that range. It's plus or minus a little bit. We're fairly close to Mexico. They may have overtaken us over the last, say, two to three years. But I looked at these data a couple years back; I think we were still number 16 at that point.
November 2nd, 2006Committee meeting
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Industry committee We could definitely get you that information. I can tell you that the current number one was not number one five years ago.
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Industry committee If you look at the numbers, over a quarter of the global production is by China.
November 2nd, 2006Committee meeting
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Industry committee I apologize. That's probably not in the presentation deck, but it's in my remarks. Our exports last year were in the order of 5.4 million tonnes. Imports were 9.3 million tonnes. So the net trade deficit for steel was about 3.9 million tonnes.
November 2nd, 2006Committee meeting
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Industry committee I think from the point of view of the steel producers, if you were into a regime where you had to buy credit simply to comply, that's not an investment you're making back into your enterprise. We have operated very much on the principle of BATEA. You use the best available tech
November 2nd, 2006Committee meeting
Ron Watkins
Industry committee On stress or pressure, we recognize that an important part of the sustainability equation is the environmental performance of the industry. You referred to comparisons since 1990. If I could just give you some data for our industry, for greenhouse gases total emissions are down 1
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