Natural Resources committee  If I understand correctly, you're talking about polygeneration.

Natural Resources committee  Okay. We believe that this will be possible around 2015. That is what the clean coal technology road map indicates.

Natural Resources committee  First, typically, the decision is made between five and seven years prior to construction. They are now well placed to make such decisions. At last two companies have decided to test two different types of technologies that will be in place around 2012. It can't go much quicker t

Natural Resources committee  Starting in 2020, yes.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for the question. The feasibility of retrofitting was one of the first things we looked at. In all cases of all these major technologies we described, it would require a major change in how the plant works--major changes in equipment, of space that was never conceived

Natural Resources committee  I think the plants today can be retrofitted to capture, say, SOx and NOx particulates--all these things that are in relatively small quantities in the gas. If you're asking them to also capture carbon dioxide, it would really be very difficult to do.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Honourable members of Parliament, ladies and gentlemen, it is my pleasure to be here today, along with my colleague from Natural Resources Canada, Graham Campbell, who, as was mentioned earlier, is the director general of the Office of Energy Res