Environment committee  I started to say that between 10% and 20% in the end use is input in terms of energy, but we could get the specifics on start and finish, a sort of life cycle.

Environment committee  Yes. The in situ is lighter on the water and heavier on the GHG emissions.

Environment committee  The Government of Canada believes that carbon capture and storage is a hugely important technology moving forward. It is a new technology. It is a technology that needs to be proved up. It's a technology that's further advanced for coal-fire-generated plants, but it's a technolog

Environment committee  It is moving forward. The $1 billion that we have, the funds that Alberta has announced, means that Canada is at the leading edge at the carbon capture and storage demonstration stage. It does take time for this stuff to be demonstrated. The costs are very high for this, but the

Environment committee  I believe those are 2007 numbers. Whether it stays at the 41% level with the economic downturn is a very good question. I think it may not stay at that percentage with the downturn. In Ontario and Quebec, we're talking about manufacturing jobs and jobs in steel. There are enormou

Environment committee  I believe this one involves Imperial Oil at their Cold Lake operation. They're using saline and brackish water. They say they've found a way to get down to 0.5 barrels of water per barrel of oil. That's an in situ operation. So improvements have been made in the total amount. It'

Environment committee  I don't know the answer to the question, if there would be such a thing. What I can say, and I'll take the opportunity to answer the previous question, is that outside energy sources, external energy sources, account for between 10% and 20% of the energy produced, the energy cont

Environment committee  Just to answer that, again, the mines are only about 20% of the area, but the challenge with the mines is that they produce for a long, long period of time, in the range of 40 years. This is a challenge, so reclamation is an issue. That said, of the 530 square kilometres that h

Environment committee  These are a hugely important piece going forward. We believe that the technological improvements that we, the companies, Alberta, and others are working on are what will make the difference in terms of improving the environmental performance over the longer term.

Environment committee  What I meant to say, if I didn't say it, is that the challenge was that input costs were very high and growing very quickly. The sense is that there is some order coming back into it, that the growth is likely to be more sustainable over the next number of years and that we won't

Environment committee  Yes. I would say that we are all speaking to that, generally. I thought the question I received was about the economics of it, and so I was speaking to the economics. There is no question that sustainable development is a crucial issue and one we are all addressing today. We hav

Environment committee  I can get you, hopefully before the end of the session, exactly what the numbers are, but it is substantial. It is higher than for conventional oil, higher than for natural gas—and significantly higher. In mining it's not as much as it is for the in situ production.

Environment committee  On mining, I may not even have the numbers, because I don't think the numbers are that high. We do have it for in situ.

Environment committee  In situ operations—and I am going to ask my guys to correct me if I'm wrong here—use in the range of 6% of Canada's natural gas right now. One of the things we are working on—

Environment committee  No, it's 6% of—