Environment committee  London is on the natural gas grid, as they are on the electricity grid. What they have found is that if they look at their systems, they can find ways of harnessing energy from their local waste. They can harness waste heat from their industries to then put into use in their re

Environment committee  That's an excellent question, and it's a number I should know, but I don't. May I come back to you with that? The 26% is across the whole economy, which is residential, commercial, and industrial. Industrial would account for roughly half. As to what percentage of industrial th

Environment committee  Mr. Lussier, let me clarify. I represent the distribution side of the gas industry, not the production side. Colleagues from CAPP should be answering your question. We, for want of a better analogy, are the truckers. We own the pipe that delivers the gas that customers use. As yo

Environment committee  Are you talking about my numbers?

Environment committee  On specific numbers, I'll have to beg your pardon, we haven't done any calculations. But by way of coming at this, is there a way we can move forward? If you look at the environmental footprint of energy production, that's electricity generation as well as upstream oil and gas,

Environment committee  I'll give you an example. We are looking at a project—well, we are looking at several projects—with the potential for harnessing gas from waste. Alberta has a waste disposal problem that we'll be regulating. Our estimation suggests that up to 10% of the volumes used, in residenti

Environment committee  As I said, I think Bill C-377 implicitly focuses on the large final emitter side. I have no issues with a regulatory framework. It's not clear on how the other 50% should be addressed, and in my estimation, the other 50% matters. Our own emissions matter. Regulate us; I'm not dis

Environment committee  Thank you for the question. I would like to differentiate the large final emitters conversation. Let's park that once and for all, the regulatory framework for that reduction. On the natural gas side, as I said, we are 26% of end use. Looking at what the economy uses natural ga

Environment committee  That's a good question, Mr. Cullen. If the question is whether, as an economy, we have put a price on using the atmosphere as a receptacle for waste, I'd have to say not adequately.

Environment committee  Mr. Cullen, my remarks were perhaps jaded by the fact that for the past too many years I had been party to what I would characterize as not exactly productive conversations around who was doing what, and when, in history. If we could do it and agree on it without having to spend

Environment committee  Thank you for your question, Mr. Bigras. I will also revert to English. I apologize; my French isn't good enough. The issue of credit for early action is a very important issue. Yes, I share the sentiments that a credit for early action should not be ignored. Frankly, again I g

Environment committee  No, I didn't say that. There's a graph somewhere in my presentation. I'm not an economist. For my sins, I'm an engineer, actually. So I had one of our economist colleagues draw me the graphs. I wanted to see what the National Round Table targets suggest the economy should do, w

Environment committee  Allow me to answer that indirectly, in that on the large final emitter side, we think the regulatory structure that might be emerging is probably adequate. We've been having this conversation for a decade and a half. Are we going to get this right within the last 0.05%? Frankly,

Environment committee  Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for the opportunity to appear before the committee as you deliberate Bill C-377. The Canadian Gas Association represents natural gas distributors across Canada who deliver gas to around six million customers—individual homes as we