Environment committee  If I could, I'd appreciate taking first crack at that question. From my perspective, the permitting structure within the provinces is a very clear location for managing these issues. The federal government has the responsibility to set the policy direction, but the structure is

Environment committee  I'm just going to share a couple of key thoughts. One of them is research in terms of efficient membrane technology associated with stripping CO2 out of the flue gas and concentrating it. That's a type of work that needs to be done. It is breakthrough technology. It's technology

Environment committee  I think the $15. I'd just put one concern forward, and that is the competitive nature of it. What we really do need to have is a strong, healthy industry. We've seen before that with a strong industry, high capital turnover, we're then able to achieve substantial environmental pe

Environment committee  Let me simply take one point or part of the question. When we start talking about a $30 or a $15 or a $50 cost per tonne, we are starting to talk about impacts upon the competitiveness of the chemical industry specifically. Our competition now is more and more becoming competitio

Environment committee  The time it took to negotiate the agreements was longer than the time it took to put the facilities in place. We're talking about a year to put the facilities in place, whereas sometimes the negotiations of the agreement take several years, if not longer.

Environment committee  We've been assuming the $15- to $25-per-tonne type of number, which we've been talking about. The federal government has put forward $15 to $20 to $25 a tonne. There are a number of different places where you can purchase credits in that type of range. When we talk about sequest