Natural Resources Committee on Dec. 7th, 2006

[The Chair, Conservative, Lee Richardson]

Sure.

[Wayne Henuset]

We've been talking a lot on different new technologies that we're hoping to get and to find. We have a technology now in nuclear power that's there. It has been around for 30 years. It has been made so cumbersome with regulations that it has now almost become not cost-effective. It is becoming more cost-effective with gas prices and oil prices going up, so now, all of a sudden, nuclear is becoming more cost-effective.

If we could just clean up our regulatory process, if you federal guys could just clean up your process, we already have the technology. We already have the carbon dioxide fixed. We already have all these things. So just clean up your act on your regulatory process, and nuclear will become the way to be.

We don't have to burn more coal and try to pump it into the ground, and hopefully it stays in the ground for another 100 or 200 years. We have the technology. We have the energy source. We have the product. We have the technology. We have the people. It's all here.

I'm not trying to get mad at it; I'm just saying, if we want to fix this, it's all here. We don't have to go and do more R and D or anything else. Just let me get to work with what we have already, and just clean up your regulatory process so I can go to work. Right now, I don't know...I'm asking you, just clean up. Make a process so I can get to work.

[Alan Tonks, Liberal, York South—Weston, ON]

That's not madness; that's passion, Mr. Chairman.

[The Chair, Conservative, Lee Richardson]

Thank you.

[Christian Ouellet, Bloc, Brome—Missisquoi, QC]

This one time, I would ask that you grant me another minute.

[The Chair, Conservative, Lee Richardson]

No. Thank you. It is now 5:30, and I think we'll call it a night.

Thank you very much, gentlemen.

The meeting is adjourned.