Natural Resources committee  The one thing about forest pests is that once you have an outbreak it is very difficult to eradicate. These outbreaks of the spruce budworm, for example, occur every 25 or 30 years or so. When they take hold, it is very difficult to actually eradicate this outbreak. So you try to

Natural Resources committee  The work is not alleged, and we do not have a line item for the Ring of Fire. We may not have a line item for clean energy—

Natural Resources committee  —but we can certainly provide you some information as to the kind of expenditures and the kind of investments and commitments that we are allocating to clean energy.

Natural Resources committee  Essentially, as Natural Resources Canada we are engaged in working with Public Works and Government Services Canada and with the low-level radioactive waste management office of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited in a historical cleanup in the town of Port Hope. The numbers you se

Natural Resources committee  Essentially, around $1.2 billion has already been recognized as a liability in the books of Canada related to the historic waste going back to, I think, the 1930s or 1940s that has accumulated in different parts of Port Hope and Port Granby; and having to recover that waste from

Natural Resources committee  We have started tendering some of the major projects. Some of the water treatment facilities are being built. First, all of the environmental assessments have been completed and so forth, so the project designs are well in hand, and some of the major contracts will soon be tender

Natural Resources committee  At this time all I could say is that perhaps we, for example, look at the Saskatchewan context; Boundary Dam obviously had some financial assistance. The experiment, which is expected to come on stream very soon, is teaching SaskPower quite a few lessons about how to do this, and

Natural Resources committee  That is where the power utility can derive some revenue for the CO2, and that creates the market incentive. I gather in the case of TransAlta there was not the same demand for the CO2 for enhanced total recovery, and that damaged the prospect for that project, notwithstanding th

Natural Resources committee  I'd like to understand what document you are working from, because we are.... I also didn't mean to cause a surprise for others.

Natural Resources committee  We're already conducting a range of research, and I would have to look at how this is presented and categorized, but we are doing work to support research and development in various forms of clean energy, energy efficiency, and next generation transportation. We have funded proje

Natural Resources committee  I would suggest that the overwhelming majority of the work of the department, certainly science and technology, is dedicated to improving the economic and environmental performance of our energy in one form or another. Where we work on the conventional side of energy, it is ess

Natural Resources committee  I would have to refer you to Transport Canada for this particular one. There would be moneys as well for the coast guard. We will be, ourselves, incurring some expenditures that are not yet fully tied down. For example, with regard to monitoring the stability of the coast, with r

Natural Resources committee  I could say that we could certainly undertake to provide the committee with the amounts already announced in budgets 2012 and 2013, which I don't have at my disposal, but that did have resources allocated to a number of departments that will have to collaborate in ensuring world-

Natural Resources committee  One, for example, that was well known is the TransAlta Project Pioneer in Alberta, which would have been a large-scale carbon capture storage project. The government had undertaken to fund that project in an amount of up to $315 million. It would have been a major scientific and

Natural Resources committee  Mr. Chair, perhaps I may be mistaken, and if so I'll stand to be corrected. Are we on page 2-69?