I appreciate what you are saying, and it is expensive. It has been expensive to this point in time and, as the technology has advanced, it is coming down in price. We have made a significant investment in this technology sector in Canada through public money, both provincial and federal.
We were once the world leader in this technology for good reasons. We've lost that lead now to the U.S. The U.S. is the leader. They're going to continue to advance this technology. The latest technology has it bringing it down to potentially $50 per tonne to store carbon underground. That is world changing.
As we say, as we develop these technologies, they become more efficient. As we're losing this to the United States because of bad government policy that hasn't kept up, we're going to lose this technology, we're going to lose this industry and we're going to lose this environmental benefit.
Everything I've heard you talk about, like green hydrogen, is much further down the development curve. Can you tell me how long you think it will take for green hydrogen to start delivering some environmental benefits? Is it one decade or two decades? No matter what, I'm going to propose to you that it's significantly longer than getting environmental benefits from carbon capture utilization and storage.