Mr. Pacetti, I have a number of questions. I have probably too many questions for the time allowed. But I did want to pose some questions to Mr. Whittaker.
Mr. Whittaker, I come from a province obviously that's very heavy in oil and gas. But it's also a province that generates a lot of electricity through wind power. If you go down to Mr. Menzies' riding, there's a lot of wind turbines down there generating a lot of electricity. I think the City of Calgary gets about 13% of its electrical generation from wind.
I want to put some challenges on the table that I get when I say I'd like to see more wind power in Canada, both as an absolute amount and as a per cent amount. People say that's a good goal, but wind is an intermittent source; it needs to be complemented with another source. Obviously, in Quebec or B.C. or Manitoba, hydro is a perfect complement. In Alberta, they're stuck for another complement. So in Alberta, Nova Scotia, and Saskatchewan it is complemented with coal. Obviously, people who are concerned about emissions are concerned about that.
The other concern raised is about the storage of wind power; it doesn't store as well as other generating sources. So I want you to address that.
Transportation of energy is an issue with any form of energy, especially for electrical generation.
The other concern raised is expense, about cost, that it will be such a high cost in kilowatts per hour as an ongoing subsidy and this will never come down. I think the proponents would say that it would have to go up initially, and then once there's adoption of enough turbines actually out there, the costs would come down.
But those are the concerns raised, and I wanted to put them on the table and then have you address them as much as you can here. If there's further information, I'd certainly appreciate that.