Finance committee  Yes, absolutely. You need to make sure you're getting value for your money as a government. You need to make sure the actual work is done and done properly.

Finance committee  Thank you, honourable Chair and members of the committee. I appreciate your having me here today. I've handed out a small presentation, which you can go through. I want to start by mentioning what the Pembina Institute is and where we're coming from. This is an important year

Natural Resources committee  I can make it quick. I think it also ultimately hurts the oil and gas industry as well. We've had all sorts of discussion with gas and oil developers in Alberta, where I've lived for the past decade. They're saying the same thing, that we need some sort of certainty to start plan

Natural Resources committee  Carbon capture and storage really isn't my area, but Pembina takes a bit of a different tack concerning investment in carbon capture and storage. I think we agree that the government probably isn't the best place for that money to be coming from. We feel it should be coming more

Natural Resources committee  The way it was defined in the throne speech it was large hydro, nuclear, coal with carbon capture and storage, and renewables. If you take those four together, we're at about 77%.

Natural Resources committee  Yes, and this is nationally. Obviously, the provinces are all very different. You've got certain provinces like Alberta at about 70% coal; then you've got a province like Quebec, which is almost 99% hydro.

Natural Resources committee  I totally agree that we are late to the game with most of these technologies. That's not to say that we're out of the game, either. I think Spain is a good example to look at. It was basically 10 years behind Denmark and 10 years behind Germany in investing in wind power, and the

Natural Resources committee  Sure. Thanks. Thanks a lot for having me here. I apologize in advance that I'm flying a little bit by the seat of my pants. I've been on vacation for the last two weeks and I only found out about my invitation here on Friday. I'm still technically on vacation, so I found a sp

Finance committee  Well, as I said, there are so many things that need to be done, and urgently; we had to prioritize. Really, the last budget did commit significant funds to carbon capture and storage, with $1 billion committed, more or less, through the Clean Energy Fund. It's not specifically

Finance committee  This might be a question that we can share. Clearly, natural gas does have an important role as a transition fuel. That's one of the important things that natural gas can be doing. It can be used to displace much dirtier sources of energy, whether it's the development of oil san

Finance committee  We are a large user. The one thing Canada often forgets is that it has the sixth largest electricity system on the planet, so we are a very major player in electricity globally. Obviously we have the manufacturing capabilities in Ontario in particular and in Quebec. Quebec has a

Finance committee  Yes, we probably could use a larger sum. We were looking for what would be potentially achievable in the current budget. One of the issues is that the Americans do have a more established industry and, right now, a larger known resource, so they're looking at refining a fairly de

Finance committee  The subsidy is still in place. It will be running out of money sometime this year, so projects that are being built and developed right now would be able to access that fund. Projects beyond November and December and into the new year that don't have their contribution agreements

Finance committee  That's a big question. The renewable developers we work with and with whom we've spoken are all very concerned about what sort of support there will be going forward. Most of the projects in Canada have been developed under the assumption that this program was going to be in pl

Finance committee  I'm not sure I understand the question properly. You're referring to how this program relates to...?