Agriculture committee  Mr. Chairman, there was a request for some information. If, through your clerk, there's anything else the committee was looking for from the association, we'd be more than happy to provide it.

Agriculture committee  Yes, Madam Bonsant, I can answer the question. Yes, these are biorefineries. Looking at the production of ethanol, it is only the starch portion of the grain that is used in the production of ethanol. The nutrients and vitamins portion is extracted out of the production process.

Agriculture committee  I'll answer your other question first. Again, on corn used, I forgot to answer your second question, which was about whether our plants contract directly with farmers. Yes, they do. There's a variety of contractual arrangements they can make to supply their grains directly to the

Agriculture committee  Yes, it is. On the corn side, again, we can differentiate between corn grown for food consumption and corn used for feed consumption. The corn they use in ethanol production in North America is referred to as yellow dent corn. It's feed-based corn. This isn't a corn that you woul

Agriculture committee  As Tim alluded to, Mr. Easter, it has a significant impact. I mean, it is the fact that we haven't seen that decoupling of price between ethanol and petroleum taking place, because the market we are talking about, when we talk about a 9 billion, 10 billion, 10.5 billion gallon ma

Agriculture committee  Just very quickly to reiterate, as Tim said it's market access: that is the single biggest question mark that exists, to address your question about how much faster we can go. Let's be clear. We are building and opening plants. We are about to commission two new ethanol plants in

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Allen, for the question. There's been an attempt to look at Brazil. Brazil simply uses sugar cane as their feedstock. They're no further ahead—with respect to my colleagues in Brazil, with whom we work very closely—with regard to development of second-generation b

Agriculture committee  I don't use the word “subsidy”; I use the word “investment”. When you look at government policy and the reason the federal government brought in the $1.5 billion ecoENERGY for biofuels program, it was driven in part not to subsidize the industry, but to create a competitive envir

Agriculture committee  Yes. In terms of current production right now, we are at about 1.3 billion litres of ethanol production in Canada. On the biodiesel side, that number is about 120 million litres in a mandated market, which would see, on the ethanol side, a demand of two billion litres, and on the

Agriculture committee  The issues happening within the renewable fuel sector in the United States are not quite happening in the same dynamic here in Canada. As you know, there has been a series of bankruptcies and plant slowdowns in the United States. In part, that was driven by the fact that the indu

Agriculture committee  I appreciate the question and the premise about the myth, because that's exactly what it is, a myth. The International Energy Agency released a report within the last month, which is the most up-to-date life-cycle assessment evaluation of renewable fuels, and they looked back ov

Agriculture committee  That is exactly what life cycle assessment means. And the model that they use, quite frankly, is a credit to the Government of Canada. The GHGenius model, which is a life-cycle assessment model, deemed one of the most comprehensive, on a global basis, was developed through Natur

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  Sure. We'd be happy to. I can submit it to the committee. I don't have it with me today, but I will certainly get it to the clerk, for sure.

Agriculture committee  I don't know that there are any specific elements. It's more the broader issue of the agenda around sustainability. We are being asked, as a biofuels industry, to take that issue very seriously from an economics, environmental, and social perspective. In doing so, we have suggest