Our industry association represents manufacturers of nitrogen fertilizer across Alberta, through to all the provinces, through to Ontario, and then the significant potash mining activities in Saskatchewan.
Increasing the efficiency of our operations has been an important activity going back decades.
Our critical fuel for running the nitrogen manufacturing process and also for mining and processing potash as fertilizers is natural gas, a very clean fuel. Over the years our industry has tended to reduce its emissions intensity—so how much natural gas it takes to produce a tonne of nitrogen fertilizer or potash.
We've had a very positive working relationship with Environment and Climate Change Canada over the years. We've worked intensely with them on the limitations there are in reducing our emissions more aggressively, which are largely based on the chemistry of our processes and the available technology.
Certainly we are working to develop pathways to having greener production, but as I said, there are some limits in our ability to do that given current technology.