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  There are two major differences between Europe and us. The first is that Europe has included under its umbrella countries from the former Soviet Union which had already achieved reductions. For example, East Germany had practically acquired half a billion tonnes, which enabled Ge

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

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I've been asked to talk about climate change. I think we should note last week's publication of the IPCC's fourth report on climate change. It's clear that the scientists' message, in the form of this fourth IPCC report, is a stronger message than that o

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  All right, Mr. Chairman. That's an extremely important question. Indeed, one of the reasons for Canada's failure is its desire to adopt an approach that's equal for everyone, on the ground that it's more equitable to be equal with players who are unequal. We clearly have to ens

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Thank you. The year 2050 is tomorrow morning. When you establish a power station, whether it's a gas-fired or coal-fired station or something else, you have to know that it will have an economic life of at least 50 years. So current decisions already have an impact on the situat

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Yes, I can.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  I can continue in English, very fast. The year 2050 is a very short period of time when we speak about energy, because if you are installing a facility today, it will still emit greenhouse gases in 2050. As for the cars for which it's a ten-year period, for the electrical facili

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  All right. The first step must be a stabilization limit. Emissions are still increasing year after year, and that's definitely not a good sign. The government will therefore first have to set a limit in the context of which we will recognize the need not to exceed the emissions l

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Yes.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  No, not necessarily. The Quebec government has developed a plan, which is its third since 1998. That plan provides for measures designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at various levels. However, the government doesn't have the necessary tools to do that. For example, the pla

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  I'll give you a very simple example. The Quebec plan, like the Canadian measures retained from the old Canadian plan, recommends raising ethanol levels in gasoline to 10%. When you don't take into account the life cycle of ethanol, ethanol production doesn't directly reduce green

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  The solutions are effective only if they result in the closing of plants that are already producing greenhouse gases and atmospheric pollution. The example that I gave earlier was purely hypothetical. If we link Churchill Falls or any new hydroelectric dam and that results in the