Agriculture committee  Some interest has been expressed in seeing a plant. We're having an open house on June 20 specifically for government representatives. If anybody is interested in coming, I would be more than happy to have you at our Ville Ste. Catherine plant on June 20 at 10:30.

Agriculture committee  Well, the rendering plants already exist. The by-products in Canada are already being processed. It's not as if there's a bunch of them that aren't going to be processed. So we're already turning them into the fats and oils. All we need to do is put the biodiesel plants close by

Agriculture committee  I'll start with your first question. The animal by-products have to be rendered, or they have to be processed in some way first, and once they become the fats and oils that turn into biodiesel, they're quite easily transported. In fact, our company, before we got into biodiesel

Agriculture committee  Very quickly, NRCan has studied our plant, since it's up and new and running, and has come back showing that for every unit of energy in, there are about four units of energy out.

Agriculture committee  When you talk about what you can do today, about 95% of our present production is going to the U.S. because of the blenders tax credit. The way they've chosen to support biodiesel production in the U.S. is working very well. Plants are springing up all over the place and producti

Agriculture committee  Thanks for the question. We're looking at what you need: demand for the renewable fuels. That's why the renewable fuels standard is going to be so important. It's nice to have the returns and some of the things we're looking at, and we are trying to value-add to our products, b

Agriculture committee  Right now, it's more cost avoidance. Because the value of the by-products since BSE have dropped so dramatically, all we're doing is trying to maintain the values. It is probably $1 a pig that's staying in the value of those by-products rather than being taken out of farmers' poc

Agriculture committee  Our first plant is open now and operating, and we're just going into the consultation process on where our second plant should strategically be located. It's a little too early to say where that is, but we're not finished with the expansion of our biodiesel business, by any stret

Agriculture committee  They need to be near one of our rendering facilities. Sixty-five per cent of the material that comes in is water, and you can't haul water very far profitably. So it will need to be near our rendering facilities. We have six facilities, starting in Manitoba and moving out to the

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. One point that I'd like to touch on very quickly is the link between rendering of animal by-products and the importance to the agricultural community of having that value added into biodiesel. Very simply, the rendering process involves taking