Environment committee  Thank you for the invitation, Mr. Chair. I am pleased to provide some information on the efforts Natural Resources Canada, or NRCan, is making to advance clean energies. Given that I'm coming to you from NRCan, you won't be surprised to hear that my remarks centre on the role o

Environment committee  I'm happy to respond. The Impact Canada clean-tech stream was a program managed out of NRCan. I'm happy to report that, as we come up to the end of that first cycle of programming, it's been a very successful program in attracting new entrants to some of our traditional grant a

Environment committee  The Impact Canada program is very active across government right now, with multiple departments, including, I think, the ISED portfolio, the Space Agency and a few others. We are just in the midst of looking at what the next generation of programming related to that might look li

Environment committee  I'm happy to jump in and perhaps have my colleague André Bernier add further detail. Yes, renewable energy, particularly from wind and solar, are incredibly fast-growing in Canada, but they are starting from a small baseline. We have generations of electricity-generation equipm

Environment committee  Generally speaking, we're looking at any hydrogen that can be developed cleanly. While you will sometimes hear about various colour schemes, with blue representing hydrogen derived primarily from natural gas using carbon capture and storage, or whether you're using hydrolysis for

Environment committee  If she's referring to the SREPs program that I mentioned in my opening comments, I'll turn it over to my colleague André Bernier, who can give a better sense of what technologies are in scope.

Environment committee  I suspect that we would not have allocated it out by technology space, but I'll—

Environment committee  This announcement was made by the U.S. yesterday. I don't think there's been any detailed analysis of the similarities in terms of how the Canadian instruments could be used. I will say that part of the President's announcement yesterday involved the important role that the fed

Environment committee  On the question of mines, we can get back to you with a specific list of mines that are opening or have opened and the pace at which those mines are being created. Many of those are within provincial jurisdiction. As part of budget 2022, we proposed $3.8 billion over eight years

Environment committee  The briefest answer is, yes.

Environment committee  There's multilateral collaboration. We're doing it through climate finance and we're doing it through the UNFCCC.

Environment committee  I'll defer to my colleagues at Environment Canada, who are responsible for the development of the standard.

Environment committee  Yes. On this one, the hub is a joint leadership between our department and the Department of Industry, but I'll turn to my colleague, Anna van der Kamp, to talk about the NRCan perspective on this, and then perhaps over to Kendal.

Environment committee  I'm happy to start on the general questions on CCUS and turn it over to my colleagues on the net-zero accelerator. We are as interested in CCUS as we are because of its broad applicability across the Canadian industrial sector. Then, yes, the hardest to decarbonize sectors, like

Environment committee  Yes.