Environment committee  We'd be happy with 2% or 3%.

Environment committee  At the moment, wood pellets are not made from roundwood. We're strictly a by-product industry. That's true universally. The little bits of roundwood we do use are insect-damaged or rotten or twisted trees that couldn't otherwise be used to make lumber. Otherwise we're using a by-

Environment committee  Generally speaking, at a community level we can look at very small-scale residential or we can look at a medium or large scale, in institutions and commercially. Generally with biomass, there are two options: You use either chips or pellets. If you talk to the operators of the b

Environment committee  It could be.

Environment committee  I think the federal government could help us on the regulatory side. One of the issues is that.... Within CETA, there is the agreement on technical barriers to trade. There's the comprehensive economic trade agreement between Canada and Europe, and there's a provision within the

Environment committee  It would certainly help, yes.

Environment committee  There are two areas where we were focusing. One was trying to get the coal-powered plants interested in wood pellets. Quite frankly, we've given up on that. There's huge demand for exports, and it's all we can do to meet the demand overseas. We put quite a bit of effort into it,

Environment committee  Simplistically, if you take something like coal or oil, which has been stored, it takes a million years or whatever to create that, and it's stored deep underground so you're taking carbon that's been stored and then you're releasing that into the atmosphere. For that to become c

Environment committee  Our percentage of use of wood pellets is less than 1%. According to Statistics Canada, only about 50% of the country is actually covered by the natural gas grid, and natural gas is a fairly low emitter compared to fuel oil or coal, but wood pellets are exponentially lower-carbon

Environment committee  I have about three or four more slides.

Environment committee  Okay, sure.

Environment committee  I put a presentation together, but unfortunately I didn't get it translated into French in time so I'm not going to be able to have many visuals to show you. And I apologize in advance; I have a bit of asthma, so I have a tendency to cough a bit. I am just going to give you an

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for your interest.

Natural Resources committee  The first thing I have to say is that New Brunswick has more pellet boilers.... I think at last count there were 30 boilers like the one at the hospital that you mentioned. They are in hospitals, schools, churches, and government office buildings. New Brunswick has been a real le

Natural Resources committee  Our greatest need has been in the area of skilled trades, such as millwrights, electricians, and certified equipment operators. Fortunately for us, we locate a lot of our plants in small communities. The employment in the pulp and paper sector and the sawmill sector has declined