Natural Resources committee  Four or five years.

Natural Resources committee  I would say there are two problems. One issue is going to be the interaction between different technologies, so gasification and liquefaction. That's the challenge we have on the technical aspect. On the policy aspect, we have a major issue, which is that not all of the provi

Natural Resources committee  For example, one of the areas in which government has been trying to help us is in going from the lab scale to a tonne scale. That is very costly, and it is an area in which the government has been shy to invest in the past. Now it is changing a bit, especially with NRCan and the

Natural Resources committee  Okay. The one aspect which is very important that we learned and, believe me, we have learned it the hard way, is an organization like ours that does research and development has now to go further into the commercial chain. The de-risking part is the most challenging part and th

Natural Resources committee  On the cost of bridges, if we take into account the time of construction, the wooden bridges are way less costly. If you look at the example of Nordic and the Stornoway Diamond Corporation mine, they constructed 17 bridges in three months. Once the cement pads on both sides of th

Natural Resources committee  Right.

Natural Resources committee  I would go back to the new clients. We are having an issue, and I'll give you a very specific example of the case of the biodiesel project in La Tuque. We have Neste for producing the biodiesel, and we have the biomass, but we need to get to the gas station. We need to have those

Natural Resources committee  We are a leader. I will give you two examples. The first one is that the “Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) Handbook” technical guide for the U.S was produced by FPInnovations. I make my case. If you look at the producers that we have in Canada, whether it be Structurlam in B.C. and

Natural Resources committee  Within the research aspect, what we have been doing is putting value added to the pulp side especially. I'll give you three examples. We have a joint venture with Domtar for producing nanocrystalline cellulose. This is the only company in the world that produces this. It is used

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for the invitation. I am very pleased to be here. We have circulated a document with pictures, and since a picture is worth a thousand words, I think it will promote discussion. I will start by saying who we are, what we are doing, and what is the impact on climate

Natural Resources committee  In the case of fire, three weeks ago the testing of cross laminated timber was done in a mechanical room at the NRC facility in Ottawa. A large representation from the Canadian firefighting associations was present. I just confirm what we are seeing, what David was saying. They a

Natural Resources committee  In the case of NCC they are located in Windsor, in the Eastern Townships, which is about 150 kilometres out of Montreal.

Natural Resources committee  In the case of the NCC plant, which is a joint venture of Domtar and FPInnovations, we are the only one in the world capable of producing a tonne of NCC a day. Yesterday there was an announcement of SDTC investing $4 million into the new product. The new product is going to be u

Natural Resources committee  One of the big things, as I was mentioning, is intelligent inventory, so that we know what we are harvesting and that we can choose the right tree to go to the right sawmill for the right product. That's obviously the logistical transportation aspect. On the transportation aspec

Natural Resources committee  On the policy aspect, I think the area where we're very fortunate, especially with some of the provinces, B.C. and Alberta, is the willingness to try different technology, like road safety and road construction. Those are policies. It is the same thing with Transport Canada accep