Environment committee  Thank you, Chair and committee members, for the opportunity to speak to you today. I'm speaking from the territory of the Tsuu T'ina Nation outside of Calgary. For my remarks, I want to focus on three issues that I believe have been missing from the public debate on eliminatin

Environment committee  The one I'm most familiar with, because I do a lot of work on indigenous economic development, is the one that Mr. Buffalo referred to: the site rehabilitation program. As he said, they are a shining success. It has reduced methane, and created jobs and economic opportunity for f

Environment committee  The only subsidies I think we should get rid of are subsidies. We should have a much stricter definition of that. Things that promote the burning of fossil fuels, not things that promote eliminating greenhouse gases.... I think we're missing the forest for the trees in some of

Environment committee  We heard in the last panel that the time has already passed for CCUS. I think that couldn't be further from the truth. But if Canada is a laggard in anything, it's in investing in carbon capture. We've already seen Norway investing in carbon capture. In fact, they're providing a

Environment committee  Enhanced oil recovery is already competitive, because what it does.... Mr. Chair, I'm getting a bit of feedback. I don't know if it's me.

Environment committee  Yes. Actually, Canada has tremendous geological potential for storage. We're blessed with so many natural resources. We're also blessed with the ability to store carbon effectively.

Environment committee  This isn't my area of expertise. Energy security and global energy demand is, as is indigenous resource development. I can tell you that, yes, it includes enhanced oil recovery, and I assume you know that there are very good environmental reasons in terms of land impact to do enh

Environment committee  I wouldn't have the specifics. You probably have the specifics in front of you. But as you're very familiar with, there has been outflow of foreign direct investment out of Canada for oil and gas, for mining that we need for critical minerals, for everything because of our very l

Environment committee  No, I'm not but I'd love to hear it.

Environment committee  We've already seen it, and I think the key of this question is that Canada doesn't operate in a bubble and the oil and gas industry doesn't operate in a bubble. If we think it's a fantasy that we're not going to have carbon capture in nine years, let me tell you about the fantasy

Environment committee  Absolutely we should be encouraging investment in Canada.

Environment committee  Absolutely. It's even worse than that because we're having an energy crisis right now. People have not had the natural gas, the LNG, that they would have used instead and actually coal production is reaching record historical highs and emissions this year are reaching record high

Environment committee  I can. I favour small government, so when the oil and gas industry is making record-breaking profits, I think that they should be paying for a lot of the things themselves. There's no reason for the taxpayer to subsidize that. However, on things like carbon capture, where it is a

Environment committee  Absolutely, and for things like electric vehicles, yes, it makes sense to subsidize chargers at this point. We can all agree with that. It has to make sense on the greenhouse gas emissions efforts also.

Environment committee  Yes, and I will say that a lot of what they have described as subsidies was basically getting the oil and gas industry through that rough six months in 2020 when oil and gas prices did go negative. That helped them stay afloat in that short period, and now, obviously, they've bee