Evidence of meeting #34 for Natural Resources in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was need.
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Conservative
David Anderson Conservative Cypress Hills—Grasslands, SK
We may agree or disagree on that.
So you're a strong advocate, then, of carbon capture and storage, are you?
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Professor, Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy, University of Calgary
I don't see myself as an advocate particularly. It's one of the potentially important technologies. It is one of the few technologies that, with coal-fired power, allows you to produce gigawatt-scale, dispatchable electricity—that means it's on when you want it and is not variable—low-carbon electricity.
Both it and nuclear power are quite important, because industrial societies need dispatchable gigawatt-scale power. If you throw both of them out, it gets a lot harder to solve the problem.
But, you know, we can do without any single one of these technologies. What we need is some clear action.
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Conservative
David Anderson Conservative Cypress Hills—Grasslands, SK
Just quickly then, how do you see nuclear development coming forward? Do you see that in terms of the large-scale reactors we've had in the past, or the smaller units that are put in a number of locations? How do you see nuclear energy developing in the future?
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Professor, Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy, University of Calgary
I think it's going to be dominated by China. China is rapidly standardizing on the Westinghouse AP1000 reactor, and they are focused very seriously.
I think it's time for, say, Canada to wake up and think about what's happening globally and look around a little bit.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Leon Benoit
Thank you
Thank you very much, Mr. Anderson.
Thank you to all the witnesses today. We appreciate very much your input into our study.
We still have some business do in camera. We hopefully will deal with it quickly.
[Proceedings continue in camera]