Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The money that has been made available for the clean air agenda is for putting in place the regulations that will target the industrial sectors. So what we are proceeding with at this time is putting in place all the components of that framework. For th

Environment committee  We are going to put in place instruments that are going to help with reductions using a trading system, which will be available to all industries across the country for the reduction of their GHGs. To complement the trading system that will be created by the private sector, we ar

Environment committee  Mr. Chair, I'm going to give an example from the agricultural sector. Many more projects can come forward, but one of the typical examples in that sector is the management of manure. The different emissions coming from exposed manure are GHGs released into the atmosphere, and t

Environment committee  Part of the funding that we are receiving this year will be used to have sessions with the different groups across the country to inform them.

Environment committee  It would be the different federations and communities that would want to be involved in the offset system. We will also have web information available to inform the population of those different offsets. It's going to be a progressive growth of the offset system.

Environment committee  What you have in the main estimates is not taking into account the additional funding that cabinet has accepted for the delivery of the framework. We had a partial acceptance or approval of the framework until we had the final decision, so we got an additional approval of the f

Environment committee  Currently we have seven groups across the country. Unfortunately, I don't know those by heart and don't have the data with me. These incentives are going to be deployed around the rest of the country, so the intention is exactly that every part of the country will be covered an

Environment committee  By the end of 2008-09.

Environment committee  Mr. Chair, of the different projects that currently exist for carbon capture and storage, we do have one in Weyburn for enhancement and recovery of oil. In all the monitoring that has been done throughout this project, which has been there for almost a decade now, we have no reas

Environment committee  Exactly.

Environment committee  We are developing regulations that will enable us to reduce the phosphate percentage that will be permitted in the various consumer products.

Environment committee  We're completing the development of regulations that will make it possible to reduce the quantity of phosphate permitted in domestic consumer products so as to reduce the amount of phosphate in the various waterways. In addition, the work we're doing with the provinces and terri

Environment committee  Treatment of water for potable purposes is under the jurisdiction of the Department of Indian Affairs. It's not Environment Canada that intervenes. The advice is provided about the different quantities or concentrations of the different pollutants by Health Canada. Potable water

Environment committee  As the committee knows, we are working using the CEPA instrument. All of you have been involved in the review of CEPA this year, so you are all familiar with the different rules of engagement of that act. When we are proceeding to put different regulations in place, we need to ma

Environment committee  Because we have a pollutant of concern and at this time no one knows exactly what the acceptable percentage or degree or quantity of GHG is, the approach that has been taken is to identify a target that is based on a reduction of that pollutant, to be able to intervene and to sta