Environment committee  No. It's a very efficient station, but it's a station that emits one million tonnes. It's the same machine as Suroît. It was planned at the same time or roughly so, but it adds a significant share to Quebec's footprint.

Environment committee  That's a 40 percent advantage in terms of greenhouse gas reduction. Natural gas is the cleanest way to produce electricity with fossil fuels, especially if you can add biogas to the natural gas, purifying the biogas so that it only produces methane. Electricity produced from natu

Environment committee  If you'll allow me to speak, it's necessary, to stabilize emissions — we're not even talking about cooling — so that the climate stabilizes at a level two degrees warmer than the current climate, for another three centuries, we would need a reduction of 1.8 tonnes of carbon, that

Environment committee  No. In 2005, a professor at Princeton demonstrated that it was possible to achieve the objective with existing technologies and by blocks of one billion tonnes of carbon emissions avoided. I refer you to a publication that I surveyed on pages 314 and 315 of my book. To summarize

Environment committee  The problem with territorial division is simply related to the fact that Canada is responsible under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The provinces have no responsibility or duty in actual fact. As a result, energy management by province is not the best way to reduc

Environment committee  I'd like to speak on this question.

Environment committee  The question of purchasing international credits is entirely relevant, but it's forgotten that an enormous number of domestic credits have been neglected on small projects based in the communities. In fact, that money will increase our GNP because it will be used in Canada by Can

Environment committee  Thank you. It's the same as when the promise was made to allocate 0.7 percent of gross domestic product to aid for developing countries. The promises that come from wishful thinking at the international level come back very regularly. I refer you to the objectives of the Millenn

Environment committee  Yes. It's very simple. Canadians, in their everyday lives, aren't the cause of emissions of this size in the domestic market. Canadians' day-to-day activities emit between six and 10 tonnes, depending on the province, but the remaining tonnes making up the 20 tonnes that we emit

Environment committee  If we go back to the example of a hockey practice, Canada is arriving at a rink where it has agreed to play, but it's six foot four and it only has size five skates. Obviously, for its first practice, it can't be very comfortable with regard to the Kyoto Protocol. However, if Can

Environment committee  I say the same thing. It's true, the energy sector is absolutely essential. We also have to question the limitation on energy responsibility by province. Very effective interprovincial actions could be taken. For example, in terms of greenhouse gas reductions, it would be much m

Environment committee  Yes. The carbon market was based on the SO2 market model, and the difference is unfortunately very great because the SO2 market in the United States, which worked relatively well, is linked to a pollutant that is subject to the same regulation in the same area. Establishing an in

Environment committee  The issues are enormous, particularly for the coastal area and northern Quebec. As regards the St. Lawrence, the river could disappear in the medium term.

Environment committee  I'd like to speak on that point.

Environment committee  Thank you very much. There are a number of factors. The first concerns costs. I'm not an economist either, but the life cycle approach absolutely has to be put forward. The life cycle approach enables us to establish, from the cradle to the grave, the costs incurred by producti