There's an article in The Globe and Mail today by the retiring president of Total that makes a very good statement concerning the oil patch's philosophy on new technologies. His comments are extremely good.
Second, what we're looking for from the government side is.... There is policy in place—and I've raised it in regard to CRCE,—whereby the metrics of evaluating the benefits of the policy, or a process that has been put in place, lag behind the times. CRCE was put into regulation in 1984; the metrics for evaluating innovative technologies that would be complying to conserve and recover waste heat are based on 1984 designs. If I can decontaminate a water stream and conserve 90% or 85% of the waste heat rather than put it through a heat exchanger and lose 50% of that heat, I have a much more efficient process, yet it's not recognized.
Therefore, metrics must be further in tune with new technologies being developed today.