Transport committee  I came on in early 2006.

Transport committee  We still work with the university. I'm not sure of the exact details of our relationship with UBC, but we work very closely with them and continue to fund research there.

Transport committee  It was 1995.

Transport committee  The co-founders were Phil Hill, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of British Columbia, and David Demers, his business partner.

Transport committee  It was on April 1, 1996.

Transport committee  It was on the Alberta stock exchange—for lack of venture capital, I apologize.

Transport committee  No. I was in the technology industry, but I was in biotechnology prior to that for five years.

Transport committee  I couldn't speak specifically to the challenges around intellectual property here in Canada. Our main emphasis in intellectual property management has been the global focus. We focus on jurisdictions in which we know our patents could be under attack. But we typically patent here in Canada as well.

Transport committee  We have offices in Australia, for example. We just recently acquired the assets of an Australian company. We have two companies we've purchased in Italy. We have offices in Italy and a large contingent of employees in Italy. We have offices in Lyon, France. We have offices in Gothenburg, Sweden, in a manufacturing facility tagged to a Volvo car manufacturing plant in Gothenburg.

Transport committee  We could not have grown at the rate we have grown dependent only on the Canadian marketplace, to put it succinctly. Fifty percent of our revenues are obtained in North America, specifically from the United States, and 50% of our revenues come from the rest of the world, and they're from a range of different countries.

Transport committee  It's typically trucked out, because there are no pipelines to these mines either. The cost of a pipeline far exceeds the 30 years of driving a truck back and forth with a tanker full of LNG.

Transport committee  It's very efficient. Up to about 500 or 600 miles, it can be very efficient to truck liquefied natural gas. There was a pipeline that operated for a number of years in China where they were trucking liquefied natural gas from northwest China almost 3,000 kilometres to southeast China, to where the industrial heart is.

Transport committee  Sure. We see natural gas playing the role diesel did in North America in the sixties and seventies, when all large trucks were running on gasoline. Diesel engines were introduced and were shown to be longer lasting. They provided a better power profile. They got better fuel economy, but there was no infrastructure.

Transport committee  I can't speak to price stability going forward. If I could, I wouldn't be here; I'd probably be sitting on an island in the Bahamas or something. But I think it will continue to be quite stable. I think the supply picture has really settled in North America. It's now in sufficiently diverse geographic areas around North America.

Transport committee  It's quite sustainable when it's readily accessible as a renewable source. In situations such as a landfill or a waste water treatment plant or a dairy, where many of those emissions are already being concentrated, or in many cases by regulation have to be captured, it's very sustainable.