Thank you.
Thank you to all the witnesses here today.
My name is Richard Cannings. I'm the MP for South Okanagan—West Kootenay in southern British Columbia.
As I've been saying here today, I have lived in Newfoundland. I was here in St. John's for three years in the middle of the seventies—back in the late Pleistocene—when I was doing my master's degree at Memorial. For one of those years, I lived in the lighthouse at Cape St. Mary's before it became a real tourist place.
We've heard a lot about wind energy. I served for six years on the House of Commons natural resources committee, and we talked about energy a lot. I was always thinking, “Why isn't Newfoundland developing this wind energy?” The comment we hear about wind energy is that it only works when the wind is blowing. Well, I can assure you that at Cape St. Mary's, the wind is always blowing. The year I was there, I think one day the wind stopped. I was like, “What's happening? The world is coming to an end.”
I'll start with Mr. Templeton on that theme, and I'll move to Mr. Leet later.
There are ways of exploiting the wind energy here in Newfoundland. One is through hydrogen and [Technical difficulty—Editor]. That sort of thing is a storage mechanism, but it's the direct wind energy, putting it into a grid, that can help Newfoundland and Labrador and the rest of Atlantic Canada benefit. You know, let's get our whole energy system into the green economy.
Can you comment on that? Maybe you can touch on the Atlantic loop or something like that. How can people here in Newfoundland and Labrador really contribute directly to the energy we use in Canada?