Environment committee  The municipal level was actually really important in the initial stages of development of the biorefinery project. Without the municipal involvement, not a lot of the forward motion would have happened initially. They have purchasing power, so they were able to say, “Hey, let's j

Environment committee  I'd say they put Alberta a step further forward than it was. Technology-wise I can speak very clearly for Himark. In 2008 Himark was the world leader in technology for anaerobic digestion. We remain at the head of the pack, and that is thanks very much to the help that we have go

Environment committee  Put very simply, there needs to be a price on carbon. Whichever instrument we use to do that is less important than its actual implementation with aggressiveness and ferocity. What we do by talking about it is create a policy risk in the eyes of the capital community, if we have

Environment committee  Go ahead.

Environment committee  Thank you, sir. Absolutely, when you're dealing with technology that's perceived as new, the capital community, as you may well know, applies a heavy premium in terms of risk. That means that money gets very expensive and sometimes that expense is out of reach for the developmen

Environment committee  We get into the discussion on embodied energy when we start talking about that aspect of recycling fairly quickly. I'm sure we're all aware that the material in front of us is just the end use of the value chain. If there's nothing wrong with it, then it becomes a very deep philo

Environment committee  I can't speak to all of them, not being directly involved with all of them. But certainly the ones I'm fairly versed in are profitable on their own, and I wouldn't be involved in a company that isn't. But it's far easier to make profit if you throw stuff over the fence than if yo

Environment committee  Since I still have the floor, sir, I would say that is absolutely the case. It has been very difficult to promote the use, especially of our anaerobic digestion technology, which produces a very competitive product to natural gas over the last several years, since 2008. On the ot

Environment committee  Thank you for your question, Mr. Sopuck, and for the opportunity to clarify. The recyclables that I'm referring to in the context of an integrated biorefinery are only those recyclables that have value. A recyclable that has no value, or a negative value, isn't a recyclable; it

Environment committee  It's pretty easy to recycle that into road crush. It's very difficult to recycle it back into glass.

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you to the committee members for allowing me the opportunity to speak before you today via wonderful technology. I haven't done too many of these video conferences, so please bear with me if I'm looking at you from the corner of my eye or something