Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all the witnesses for being here. I'm new to the committee, so this is all very interesting to me. I'm a southerner, being from metro Vancouver and right on the U.S. border, so this is really enlightening.
Lynne, my question is for you, but my preamble relates to evidence given by Shannon and Lorne. Shannon made the point that while natural gas might be cheap or inexpensive, the delivery thereof is not. I think Lorne made the same point, but probably talking more about fuel. It's 50¢ a litre if it comes by barge and five dollars a litre if it comes by air transport. You know, that's not unusual at all. Even in big cities like mine, when I look at my Fortis bill, the cost is broken down. Half of it is for delivery, even though we have a lot of infrastructure for natural gas delivery.
Lynne, you talked about perhaps some other alternatives that might be possible for local development. I think you talked about wind energy. I don't know if you mentioned solar energy. For a good part of the year, there isn't a lot of sunshine. Will local infrastructure be part of the solution? Perhaps you could talk about that.