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Environment committee  Yes, we do. We see that it's important to have an open and transparent process in assessing this technology. And we do support studies in terms of public surveys and try to develop information and make it available to the public.

May 15th, 2007Committee meeting

Bill Reynen

Environment committee  Not the Weyburn project, no. It's not project specific, but just technology in general.

May 15th, 2007Committee meeting

Bill Reynen

Environment committee  Yes. Also, most of the media we're talking about into which we inject CO2...a lot of it is depleted oil and gas reservoirs or saline aquifers. In the case of oil and gas reservoirs, this is rock. This has contained oil and gas for periods of 50 million to 200 million years. So

May 15th, 2007Committee meeting

Bill Reynen

Environment committee  It's a huge question that comes up time and time again as to the long-term liability of storage of CO2, and how long is long enough.

May 15th, 2007Committee meeting

Bill Reynen

Environment committee  The general consensus is that it would be the long-term responsibility of governments because governments endure and industry comes and goes. In Alberta, for instance, an orphan fund has been established for abandonment of oil and gas wells. And something similar has been sugge

May 15th, 2007Committee meeting

Bill Reynen

Environment committee  No. This comes to the question of how long is long enough. Right now we're facing a climate change challenge because of the higher degree of CO2 going into the atmosphere. Let's say in 200 or 300 years we've established technologies that provide a balance between our CO2 emissi

May 15th, 2007Committee meeting

Bill Reynen

Environment committee  One of the big issues around CO2 capture and storage, about which there is a lot of discussion, is long-term storage as one of the factors in liability. But the other thing is the monitoring and measurement and verification that you're referring to. In a lot of the international

May 15th, 2007Committee meeting

Bill Reynen