Agriculture committee  There is also, sir, an underlying problem in the fuel industry, not only in biofuels. The fuel industry is regulated. You cannot sell just anything to people at he pump. That requires a certain control over how the mix was made. This discourages small producers because they do no

Agriculture committee  Make no mistake, in the fuel business, GreenField Ethanol is a small producer. It is no Shell or Texaco. I believe that the biofuels sector, whether it be biodiesel, ethanol or new fuels of the future, will be fantastic in terms of the creation of wealth, and that we are discussi

Agriculture committee  I think it's a good step in the right direction, and we will see. We never know. When projects of law go into effect, it's their application that brings the nitty gritty. I think that will be the case, but I'm convinced that Canada is moving in the right direction.

Agriculture committee  I think the answer has been provided by my colleague. It is critical to give the right signal to the financial markets that we mean what we say and that there would be an industry developing in Canada. The timing is now. If we begin waiting, others will do it for us.

Agriculture committee  We are also—

Agriculture committee  That is my understanding as well. I know the plant very well and it is producing 120 million litres of ethanol right now. It has the capacity to produce up to 140 million litres, using grain produced in Quebec. As far as I know, no corn is imported. The plant is fully operational

Agriculture committee  Today, the grain ethanol industry is an industry without risk. There is corn. We know exactly what to do in order to make sugar, to ferment it and to get proteins. This industry has allowed the ethanol sector to develop in North America. In Quebec, for various reasons, we decid

Agriculture committee  Ethanol does have a lower density than gasoline. Hydrocarbons have the highest density of all the fuels known. I would not recommend going immediately to E85. I think the main reason that the 5% and eventually the 10% ethanol in the gasoline is proposed is to have some environm

Agriculture committee  To be truthful, I would prefer the audio in Spanish.

Agriculture committee  But I can function in both the country's official languages. If it is appropriate, I would prefer to continue in English.

Agriculture committee  Yes. I was asked to present my views in front of your committee. I'm not accustomed to hearings of this nature. I am a scientist. I am a professor at the university, and I hold the chair in cellulosic ethanol and second-generation biofuels. I also have a large number of activiti