Finance committee  It depends on where you're from in the country. In British Columbia, we're not missing out at all. A shale resource is being developed as we speak in northeastern British Columbia. Interestingly enough, it's supported by both sides of the provincial house, both the sitting govern

Finance committee  Yes. It's my understanding that Natural Resources Canada is actually in the process of collecting such information. It's commissioned some work in order to ensure that there is more of a national scientific perspective. I'm somewhat cautious about the idea of a national energy st

Finance committee  I appreciate that. My point is that I think the appropriate regulatory regimes can be developed in the provinces. The federal government's role can be to speak to the economic opportunity that's represented by developing the resource across the country.

Finance committee  As I mentioned, we just came off a three-day conference with the International Gas Union, and we had a series of discussions about this. When people talk about 100 years of gas, the estimate is based on approximately 700 TCF, trillion cubic feet, and we produce about six a year i

Finance committee  The short answer is, yes, it has, and utilities would be happy to work with the federal government on a project-by-project basis. They're limited in what they can do on their own because there's a formula with each regulator that authorizes what they can and can't spend. But they

Finance committee  I find that whenever there's a debate about carbon, people quickly move to a position where they think that because natural gas is a hydrocarbon—it's the simplest hydrocarbon, but it's a hydrocarbon—therefore we have to think about getting rid of it. I find that the more we can

Finance committee  Any opportunity to put more gas into the transportation sector is one that we're prepared to consider and discuss with federal officials. With respect to the north in particular, there are obviously unique challenges. One of the challenges of showing a map of the United States

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, for the opportunity to appear today. As mentioned, my name is Timothy Egan. I'm president and CEO of the Canadian Gas Association. CGA is the voice of Canada's natural gas delivery industry. As the map in your handout show

Natural Resources committee  Yes, that is a common criticism of the industry, because there is the assumption, as you noted, that a commodity is just being run through a pipe and that's all there is to it. There is significant technology involved at all stages of the value chain for natural gas. The most r

Natural Resources committee  I can't comment on the upstream. We're in the downstream side. I was going to take you right down the value chain.

Natural Resources committee  I would say that in terms of major transmission lines we are world leaders in technology. We are some of the most significant innovators in large transmission technology, which is not surprising given the distances that we have to move commodities like natural gas across the coun

Natural Resources committee  From coast to coast to coast. We have a utility in Inuvik. These are technicians, these are engineers—these are highly skilled professionals in a host of different areas. The opportunity to expand on that is really significant as the industry continues to grow, and the affordab

Natural Resources committee  I won't comment on oil because we're a natural gas industry. Pipelines are an incredibly safe way to transport natural gas, and they've been relied upon for decades and decades to do that. The safety measures that are in place are.... First of all, it's a highly regulated indus

Natural Resources committee  I talked about natural gas opportunities in the north. The reality is that we're not going to put pipelines in place to get natural gas to many of those remote project opportunities; we're going to move it in two other ways: either as liquid natural gas or as compressed natural g

Natural Resources committee  That's correct.