Environment committee  Yes. I'll just walk you through it quickly. Of the $125 million that lapsed, $68 million was grants and contributions. Of that, $62.5 million was allocated to Sustainable Development Technology Canada to fund work they were doing that they couldn't use. So that money is gone.

Environment committee  I'd have to go back and check exactly why. They didn't have enough projects ready to fund. They fund projects on commercialization of technologies, and there just weren't projects of sufficient quality for them to invest in. They couldn't use the money in that year, so it lapsed.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  I believe it was in the biofuels area. I'll have to go back and check. We can get you that information.

Environment committee  In this case, yes. Where we don't spend money in a particular year—the balance of that $43.4 million—we have up to a limit an ability to carry those funds into the next year. In this case, we are able to carry these funds forward to the next year. If the number gets big enough, w

Environment committee  Let me come to the diluted bitumen in a second. You raised a number of other specific lapses from the public accounts. I don't have a copy in front of me, but we will get you a written response on all of those.

Environment committee  I just wanted to say that we haven't forgotten about them and that we'll get them to you.

Environment committee  Thank you very much. On the diluted bitumen, I can't give you the results of the research. They're not ready yet, but we hope they will be out soon. We've been working pretty hard on this, and we've also been testing our research in a peer review manner. We are looking at the qu

Environment committee  Yes. The last time we ran out of time because I went on a long time and Carol didn't get to provide the details. So I'll keep it very short. Suffice to say that, yes, there's a lot of interest and work being done on the issue of oil spills, and there are two tracks. One is to m

Environment committee  Sorry, I didn't address that. I do recall that.

Environment committee  I do recall that coming up in the gulf. I don't know of anybody who's picked up that ball and run with it. But let us go back. There will be a number of areas where we have to follow up, respond, and I'll see if anything's been done on that front.

Environment committee  Perhaps I'll turn that over to Carol. I'm not sure if we have all of the information that you want at our disposal, but we can certainly get it. Carol, did you want to tackle that?

Environment committee  Yes. Again, I'll start by talking a little bit about our work in the area of oil spills, and Carol can comment and add any details on the specific amounts in supplementary (B)s. This is an area where we're doing a fair amount of work at the moment. From the Environment Canada a

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll note at the outset that in addition to Ron and Alan, we have officials behind us who can help with some of the detailed questions. With your permission, I could call them up to the table from time to time as we go. Let me start on the Great Lakes issue

Environment committee  It's in your hands. I'm happy to do that.