I certainly would agree that a lot of technology exists. The co-firing of biomass with coal is certainly a proven technology in Europe and the United States. Ontario Power Generation, one of our sponsors, has just gone through environmental hearings in Ontario for up to 480,000 tonnes a year of biomass to co-fire at Nanticoke within the next two years. They've just asked for environmental permission to move in that direction. That would be the upper limit, but it's certainly a very major.... They're talking up to 20% co-firing on three of the eight 500-megawatt power generation facilities.
So we see this happening. I'm getting calls every week or two from Europe, trying to find sources, people looking for wood pellets. They're paying $250 a tonne now, or more--$250 to $253 a tonne in Europe--for wood pellets.
The biomass market in Canada is quite profitable now. There are 500,000 tonnes of biomass pellets a year moved from Vancouver, shipped all the way to Europe for power generation. There are major movements in Ontario for large-scale biomass power.
One of our challenges as a country is this. The Europeans see Canadian biomass as a source of how they are going to deal with their environmental and greenhouse gas problems. I think the real question is whether we're going to put in the right incentives and policies to encourage the use of Canadian biomass in Canada to address the climate change issue.