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Finance committee Thank you, Mr. Chair. Merci, monsieur le président. My name is Sandra Schwartz. I am the vice-president of policy advocacy with the Canadian Electricity Association. Every day our member utilities generate, transmit, and distribute electricity to industrial, commercial, reside
September 29th, 2011Committee meeting
Sandra Schwartz
Finance committee We have made a number of submissions in the past. As we recommended last year, we are once again asking for reform of key federal acts to enable investment in electricity infrastructure, specifically the Species at Risk Act and others. Thank you.
September 29th, 2011Committee meeting
Sandra Schwartz
Finance committee Yes, Canada still has one of the lowest prices at the consumer level, and certainly also for industrial consumers. Canada still ranks...when we look at the charts, even with prices increasing across the country as a result of infrastructure investments. Part of the problem that
September 29th, 2011Committee meeting
Sandra Schwartz
Finance committee Thank you for your question. For the ecoENERGY programs related to efficiency, we have publicly supported those programs. When the minister announced.... Most recently, it was the ecoENERGY retrofit program, for example. We have been putting out press releases in support of that
September 29th, 2011Committee meeting
Sandra Schwartz
Finance committee To answer the question, some of the areas Canada could be working in, in terms of innovation, may be around energy storage options, for example. If we are able to store electricity from variable generation, like wind, solar, etc., we'd be able to use that for baseload power, whic
September 29th, 2011Committee meeting
Sandra Schwartz
Finance committee Currently, from a federal government perspective, as we put forward in our submission, what we're seeking primarily right now is regulatory certainty and predictability and consistency in application. We have a number of federal statutes that we have to apply and abide by, whet
September 29th, 2011Committee meeting
Sandra Schwartz
Finance committee Yes, we will. We certainly will, and if the committee wishes to have us present again in more detail, we'd be happy to do so.
September 29th, 2011Committee meeting
Sandra Schwartz
Environment committee Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Merci beaucoup. Members of the standing committee, I'm pleased to appear before the committee today to provide the Canadian Electricity Association's perspective and views on the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act and our recommendations for ch
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Sandra Schwartz
Environment committee No, that's fine. I've made my main recommendations. The rest of my presentation was strictly focused on the one project/one assessment proposal, as well as concluding remarks. Thank you very much.
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Sandra Schwartz
Environment committee Yes, I'll comment on the first part and then allow Mr. Toner to answer more directly, based on examples on the ground. With respect to the $293 billion for required investments, we are at a point in Canada at the moment where we need to make investments today for those electrici
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Sandra Schwartz
Environment committee Perhaps Mr. Toner can answer this from a company's perspective.
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Sandra Schwartz
Environment committee I'm looking to my colleague over here to answer that question. It's hundreds of thousands. Thank you, John. One point I do want to make on the cost side—it is important in our sector, and I think probably Ms. Jackson would echo this in the municipal waste water sector as well—
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Sandra Schwartz
Environment committee They're passed on with increased electricity rates.
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Sandra Schwartz
Environment committee If I may, I will again reiterate the point where the original intent of environmental assessment was not necessarily to halt or stop projects, but actually to ensure that environmental impacts were mitigated or removed.
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Sandra Schwartz
Environment committee If you can mitigate for those environmental impacts, that's what environmental assessment is supposed to look for. Then, ultimately, the proponents are to address those environmental impacts—
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Sandra Schwartz