Natural Resources committee  May I just make a comment on that? I tend to agree with Mr. Jaccard. When I say we need clear targets and timelines, it's not about the intensity requirement for the next three years, or the next seven or eight years. That's a start. It's not the end of the line. We need time

Natural Resources committee  My understanding is that right now the province is working on a climate change strategy, and they've committed to making it public by the end of this session of the legislature. So it should be out this month, in terms of what the actual strategy is on climate change for the prov

Natural Resources committee  Well, now you're into storage. You started off with the storage issue. Systems that have large hydro storage capabilities can integrate more wind than other systems. So it's the nature of the system you have. Hydro-Québec, for instance, can integrate more wind into its system th

Natural Resources committee  Pardon me, but I'll answer in English. We actually do a projection. We do a ten-year resource plan looking forward at the system. It's a baseline plan simply to say that these are the resources that exist today with projected retirements, what's there, and what the requirements

Natural Resources committee  You're right. There's tremendous opportunity for wind, and we're going to have a lot of wind. The opportunity on tidal is more long term. As Mr. Campbell said, you look at prices of $400 a megawatt hour, similar to solar, in order to get some of these tidal demonstration projec

Natural Resources committee  I'm going to agree with Mr. Jaccard, and I'm also going to disagree with him. Regarding his proposal on the carbon tax, you need the right price signal long term so that people can make the right decisions that have a value in terms of addressing climate change in the long term.

Natural Resources committee  I don't know if we have to go there. Each province has a tariff today. The transmission assets are built, collected, and paid for by use of the transmission system in each of the provinces. You could build some east-west transmission. The role the federal government might play in

Natural Resources committee  We face some problems because we operate cross provinces, whereas most of the system operators today in Canada are operating only in their jurisdiction. B.C. Transmission Corporation operates B.C., Alberta System Operator operates Alberta--so every province has just that province

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Richardson, for the invitation and the opportunity to speak to the committee. I'm going to just explain what the New Brunswick System Operator is and talk about some issues on the concept of “green”, some opportunities in Atlantic Canada, what some of the challeng