Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and thank you to our witnesses for being with us today and providing some outstanding information.
I'm going to direct my questions to Mr. Adamson. I know you have a tight time schedule, so I will try to get you in before you have to leave.
Earlier this year I had the opportunity to tour the North West upgrader in Alberta, which is the first refinery built in Canada since 1984, focused on carbon capture. I want to talk to you a bit about carbon capture.
You mentioned the Containment and Monitoring Institute and the Carbon Capture and Conversion Institute. However, I thought it was interesting that after the Liberals announced the carbon tax, the Province of Saskatchewan released its white paper on climate change, which included some information on carbon capture technology being the direction in which we should go. Carbon taxes aren't going to allow us to reach our goals. They'll be punitive, if anything.
Then a federal report came out indicating that British Columbia will see a 32% increase in greenhouse gas emissions between 2013 and 2030, despite the fact that B.C. has a carbon tax. Therefore, I think carbon capture is a direction in which we need to go. Once the North West refinery is up and running in the next couple of years, it will redirect 1.2 million tonnes of carbon dioxide through the Alberta Carbon Trunk Line and redistribute it to orphan wells and enhance the life expectancy of some of those wells.
In your presentation today, you talked a bit about the need for additional funding. This is not something the private sector can do on its own. In your expert opinion, how close are we to having carbon capture in the mining industry? We've heard a lot of testimony from our witnesses that the future of Canada's mining industry is becoming more and more directed toward remote areas. Is this something that is within reach? Can we have carbon capture as part of the mining industry? What do we need to facilitate that technology and that innovation?