As many of you may know, Iogen Corporation has a demonstration plant here in Ottawa.
By the way, Mr. Chair, any members of the committee are more than welcome to come out for a tour. It is the largest and only operating cellulose-to-ethanol demonstration plant in the world. We've been making fuel since 2004. We fuel, for example, Government of Canada fleets. We have our own E85 fleet that we run.
It's amazing to me every day. I drove here today in a cellulose E85-powered Chevy Impala. I'm always amazed that the fuel I drive my car on came from straw.
There are complicated scale-up questions and cost questions associated with going from demo to commercial. Where are we on the time scale? It is our hope that we can come to a final investment decision towards the end of this year or early 2010, and then there would be a two-year construction period. So we'd be looking at some time in the spring or summer of 2012, if we can meet that January 2010 investment decision hurdle. By 2012, we would be looking at the first commercial plant.