Natural Resources committee  I don't believe we are involved. I would add that we belong to a number of international bodies on renewable energy. I can get you the details of those.

Natural Resources committee  Yes, I could, thank you. In the supplementary estimates (B) we're requesting, it's essentially a reprofile of $260,000, which was received late in fiscal year 2007-08. So $267,000 is allocated for information management renewal at the National Energy Board. The additional funds

Natural Resources committee  My associate, Serge Dupont, has been taking a particular lead on the nuclear file, so I'm going to ask him to respond.

Natural Resources committee  That's a great question. It's exactly what the Canadian Forest Service has been promoting and we've also been promoting, under ecoENERGY, for renewable power: the development of biomass in the forest industry. We anticipate that under the community adjustment fund there would be

Natural Resources committee  Yes, it will.

Natural Resources committee  Thanks for that question. I'm going to ask the head of the Canadian Forest Service to respond, Jim Farrell.

Natural Resources committee  We are aware that there are applications before the National Energy Board to change the overall regulation from a provincial to a national level. But those are applications to the National Energy Board, and I'm really not at liberty to make a comment on this matter. I would prefe

Natural Resources committee  Very briefly, there was indeed a protocol developed, really as a follow-up to the incident last December. But that is a protocol for notification and information sharing among AECL, NRCan, and Health Canada, and it's specifically targeted toward the potential for shortages of med

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much. That $20 million is definitely part of the program. Our program was authorized to spend $46 million in the fiscal year starting on April 1, 2008. Due to unprecedented demand, this limit was reached for applications dated up to October 31, 2008. So we've had

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much for the question. The deadline for submissions is 2013 under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. That's our target.

Natural Resources committee  Yes. It's an important point. We're constrained by the limited amount of time for the field season in some of those conditions up north. The request for funding in supplementary estimates (B) is to ensure we can make the necessary investments this fiscal year to catch those win

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for that question. I think it's fair to say that since the budget announcement we have been working with other departments to properly define the community adjustment fund. That work will be ongoing for the next couple of weeks. We are working in an accelerated fashion

Natural Resources committee  Again, it's similar for the clean energy fund. We're in the process now of working through the details of how that fund will be invested. As you know from the budget, $850 million of the fund is targeted toward demonstration of clean energy, and that is to include carbon capture

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much for the question. It is indeed an important one. In terms of the way we approach clean energy, one definition would be the level of emissions from an energy source.

Natural Resources committee  I wouldn't say strictly greenhouse gas emissions. From an energy perspective, this is the number one contributor to GHG emissions, so it is probably more of a consideration than other releases. But as a government as a whole, we're concerned with all releases, and with clean air