The first thing I just want to refute, even though he's a good colleague here from the forest sector, is that in agriculture we don't have any waste; we just have underutilized, underpriced opportunities, and so does he.
Moving to the Alberta system, the Alberta legislation, I believe, is a reaction to wanting to move ahead. This legislation came into effect on July 1, 2007, for firms that were emitting more than 100,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases per year. The system allowed compliance by internal reductions in companies, a $15-per-tonne payment to a technology fund, and in the area of offsets. So when it comes to the offset arena, in particular, Alberta has, as I mentioned earlier, garnered five million tonnes of offsets through the protocols they have recognized within their system.
Fortunately, agriculture was able to have “no till” recognized there fairly quickly, and they just are in the process of doing other reviews there now to bring in a nitrous oxide reduction protocol. There will be beef feeding protocols. There are issues for anaerobic digesters and all the rest of it. So here are the initiatives that Alberta is putting in place. They actually came and copied work that had been done at a national level to take to Alberta, and then the current federal system chose to copy what Alberta was doing to recognize protocols that were under discussion within the offset guidance documents. They just completed consultation with this government here recently. We are awaiting the opportunity to see where this is going to take us.