Agriculture committee  A group of Quebec business people got the world rights to a new technology for the direct conversion of hog manure and liquid manure into biodiesel. The project is supposed to get under way in May or June of this year to do what is known as testing the concept in technological de

Agriculture committee  I would just like to add that this points to the fact that there will be increasing competition for access to all of the biomass for conversion purposes. The competition will become very intense at that time. Biomass and waste matter that have little or no value today will become

Agriculture committee  We are talking about producing biofuels using agricultural biomass, but we can also do this using forest biomass and municipal biomass. Clearly, in the case of first generation technologies, we use mainly, if not solely, agricultural biomass. With the development of second- and t

Agriculture committee  As I said at the beginning, the Conseil québécois du biodiésel does not really have any problems with regard to the proposed amendments to the bill. What is important, however, is what we actually do to help every biofuel producer and to ensure there is sustainable development. I

Agriculture committee  Good afternoon. My name is Camil Lagacé and I am the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Conseil québécois du biodiésel. First of all, I would like to thank you for inviting us here today to comment on Bill C-33. Generally speaking, we support the proposed amendments