Transport committee  We make friends with everybody.

Transport committee  Circumstances change so quickly that we have to make friends with everybody. The fundamental reality is that the energy consumer has an increasing variety of choices available to him or her. As I said, we're in the utility business, in the business of providing energy services. T

Transport committee  That's correct.

Transport committee  I think you speak to a bigger question, which is about the increasing urbanization of society and the challenges posed around it. That's something we're engaged in, in a host of ways. That's why one thing we focus our work on is integrated community energy systems to deliver ener

Transport committee  If I can add on the safety question, these appliances are CSA-approved. There may be supplemental provisions from province to province on the appliances. The utilities themselves are in the business of putting products that have safety implications into the home for use in furnac

Transport committee  Yes, I could respond to that one. If there's a regulatory framework in place, the natural gas industry is going to comply with it. So in that regard, yes, you respond to the regulatory framework. But the fundamental affordability of natural gas is not driven by regulation. It's

Transport committee  If I can, I'll just jump into this. Recent announcements by the Secretary of Energy in the United States on investment and effort to drive some of this technology forward, which we'd be happy to get before the committee, are a demonstration of the U.S. government's recognition

Transport committee  But it does go to measurability, though. You're right, ultimately there's no zero, but the point is—

Transport committee  As I understand the question, you said it's regulation that's driving the consideration of natural gas as an option. I'd actually say that it's regulation that has driven the search for alternatives to diesel, but it's the affordability of natural gas that's presenting natural ga

Transport committee  I don't know what the range is, but you're correct that the conversations are under way, looking at natural gas as an alternative, using LNG, as you say, tanked on the train.

Transport committee  I have to go back and look at the technology. We're getting this information from some of the marine users right now. I was going to comment on measurability, but go ahead.

Transport committee  You referenced the clean energy dialogue, and I want to highlight the fact that—

Transport committee  The clean energy dialogue does not talk about natural gas at this point, right? The focus of the dialogue on energy between Canada and the United States has not factored in natural gas. We think that's a shortcoming. It may be understandable given some of the history. But the cha

Transport committee  On the waste question, I had to burn through this presentation very quickly, but I did make one quick reference to renewable natural gas, which includes methane recovered from waste disposal facilities, from landfill. There's significant work under way in Quebec to do that. Gaz M

Transport committee  As an industry, we don't say natural gas is the answer to everything. We say right fuel, right place, right time. There's a place in our energy economy for a host of technologies and a host of fuels. We think that the consumer should have as much choice as possible. We think that