Government Operations Committee on April 28th, 2010

[Siobhan Coady, Liberal, St. John's South—Mount Pearl, NL]

What is RLP's technology? This is the one that I think was submitted to Mr. Prentice--

[Nazim Gillani]

This was. This is the removal of mercury--

[Siobhan Coady, Liberal, St. John's South—Mount Pearl, NL]

Do they do business in Alberta? What do they do?

[Nazim Gillani]

Basically it's the process to remove mercury through carbon emissions. It's a fairly extensive sort of technology that allows you to take the burning of coal in coal-burning plants and reduce the amount of mercury that's coming out of them significantly.

[Siobhan Coady, Liberal, St. John's South—Mount Pearl, NL]

And that's a novel technology?

[Nazim Gillani]

It's a very novel technology based on the cost of it. This is a very expensive process and you can only get so much done. This allows you to do it much cheaper and get a lot more of the mercury out of it.

[Siobhan Coady, Liberal, St. John's South—Mount Pearl, NL]

What was occurring between October 12 and November 3, where there's a flurry around this RLP?

[Nazim Gillani]

Remember, you're seeing a reference to e-mails back and forth, right? So you're saying that Glémaud sent me five e-mails and I'm giving you every date and every e-mail he sent. Maybe he was eager to get something done. I don't know.

[Siobhan Coady, Liberal, St. John's South—Mount Pearl, NL]

He was eager to get something done?

Okay. Thank you.

[Nazim Gillani]

You're welcome.

[The Vice-Chair, Conservative, Chris Warkentin]

Thanks, Ms. Coady.

We will now move to our committee business. We're going to move in camera.

Thank you, Mr. Gillani, for appearing.

[Nazim Gillani]

Thank you very much.

[The Vice-Chair, Conservative, Chris Warkentin]

We'll now suspend for three minutes.

[Proceedings continue in camera]