Transport committee  There are 871, as of April 30, 2012.

Transport committee  Their revenue was $264.7 million for calendar year 2011, up from $144.4 million in calendar year 2010. Over the last five years there has been a compound annual growth rate of approximately 32%.

Transport committee  Yes, and it was spun through the university's industry liaison office. So the patents for the technology were held by the University of British Columbia, and they were spun out as a company.

Transport committee  We still work with the university. I'm not sure of the exact details of our relationship with UBC, but we work very closely with them and continue to fund research there.

Transport committee  I came on in early 2006.

Transport committee  No. I was in the technology industry, but I was in biotechnology prior to that for five years.

Transport committee  I couldn't speak specifically to the challenges around intellectual property here in Canada. Our main emphasis in intellectual property management has been the global focus. We focus on jurisdictions in which we know our patents could be under attack. But we typically patent here

Transport committee  We have offices in Australia, for example. We just recently acquired the assets of an Australian company. We have two companies we've purchased in Italy. We have offices in Italy and a large contingent of employees in Italy. We have offices in Lyon, France. We have offices

Transport committee  Absolutely.

Transport committee  We could not have grown at the rate we have grown dependent only on the Canadian marketplace, to put it succinctly. Fifty percent of our revenues are obtained in North America, specifically from the United States, and 50% of our revenues come from the rest of the world, and they'

Transport committee  It's typically trucked out, because there are no pipelines to these mines either. The cost of a pipeline far exceeds the 30 years of driving a truck back and forth with a tanker full of LNG.

Transport committee  It's very efficient. Up to about 500 or 600 miles, it can be very efficient to truck liquefied natural gas. There was a pipeline that operated for a number of years in China where they were trucking liquefied natural gas from northwest China almost 3,000 kilometres to southeast C

Transport committee  Sure. We see natural gas playing the role diesel did in North America in the sixties and seventies, when all large trucks were running on gasoline. Diesel engines were introduced and were shown to be longer lasting. They provided a better power profile. They got better fuel econo

Transport committee  I can't speak to price stability going forward. If I could, I wouldn't be here; I'd probably be sitting on an island in the Bahamas or something. But I think it will continue to be quite stable. I think the supply picture has really settled in North America. It's now in sufficien

Transport committee  I don't know the upstream side of it terribly well. That would be best posed to someone in the production side of biogas. For example, Gaz Métro, FortisBC, and some of the other gas utilities are involved in that. I do know that there are some challenges around reinjection of b