Finance committee  On the CCS front, Boundary Dam was the model in response to the federal legislation that was passed, which basically said that thermal coal power stations of a certain age had to be shut down unless they went to CCS. Possibly supporting funding for additional CCS power stations

Finance committee  I can forward that information. The most recent article is from Bloomberg on two new potash mines a Russian company is going to put into production at significantly reduced operating costs.

Finance committee  I think that's the reality of how companies have to react to the pressures they're under. For these companies to remain viable, they have to look to strengthen themselves. Agrium is not a big potash mining company. They have one potash mine, but they have a lot of value-added dow

Finance committee  Thanks for the opportunity to provide a snapshot. Mining provides about 6% directly to Saskatchewan's economy. That's direct employment and not spinoff value-added. There are over 30,500 people directly and indirectly employed by the Saskatchewan mining industry. There's addition

Finance committee  Oil capacity is taking up that rail capacity that we need for bulk commodities like fertilizer and agricultural products.

Finance committee  Sure. I do really want to echo the same perspective from the agriculture sector here. We have a lot of best-in-world technology already, so it will be very challenging to have the emission reduction targets. It's not that there is not more we can do—we can look at that—but we thi

Finance committee  Thank you. Good morning, Mr. Easter, members of the committee, and fellow witnesses. My name is Pam Schwann. I am the President of the Saskatchewan Mining Association, and our representatives include industry funded organizations. Our members are mining companies in Saskatchewan

Natural Resources committee  I think it's understanding what your population is. I'd be happy to send you all of our responses back to COSEWIC that question the data that's being pulled before these listings because there's certainly been more than just a handful of cases. I'll be happy to forward that to yo

Natural Resources committee  I think I mentioned that one of the reasons we feel we have significant public support is because indigenous people are not just involved at the EA stage. By then, if you're already at the environmental assessment stage, you're well into knowing you have a good thing in terms of

Natural Resources committee  Where we see most of the regulatory uncertainty right now is on the federal side, whether it's because we have duplication with CEAA, or more particularly on a number of files with Environment Canada, at the moment. Our provincial process is fairly well understood. We think that

Natural Resources committee  Maybe I could just jump in and--

Natural Resources committee  I'm sorry, my French is not very good. Can I have a translation, please?

Natural Resources committee  Thank you. I think the way the federal government can help us, first on the sustainability question, is making sure there are clear policies and regulations in place, and also that there's a clear path towards implementation. What we did see in the last regulatory review was a

Natural Resources committee  Unless there's some way to ensure that other countries supplying those products are also having to pay that, I think it would make it more difficult.

Natural Resources committee  I'll take the first shot at that. I think if we talk to anybody in exploration, the best place to find a new mine is next to an old mine. There were some incentives in place that would help to offset some of the expenses for deep drilling. A lot of the reserves are now more and