Agriculture committee  It's unbelievable matter. In fact, clean coal has one of the biggest applications of algae. They want to take flue gases, bubble it through algae beds, and clean up coal. Flue gases clean it up probably by 40% to 50% on the GHG. So that's huge. When you're talking about manure w

Agriculture committee  I think it's the idea of cellulose; the remaining lignin that's left is put into fibre boards. It's interesting. In 1970, one of the sheiks said that petroleum is far too valuable to burn because of all the things you could do with it. In fact biodiesel and renewable fuels are

Agriculture committee  Simply put, ethanol, in Canada anyway, is cars. Diesel, or biodiesel, is buses and trucks. I'm not eating ethanol's lunch and they're not eating our lunch with regard to that. It's just two different fuels. For your fats that are made into the biodiesel a car runs on, that's a di

Agriculture committee  No. A jet engine is more like a diesel engine. There are some biodiesel applications in jet. One of the most recent was the New Zealand airline, I think, that flew jet biodiesel. It's the biodiesel application that would find its way more into jet, but it's not likely to be that

Agriculture committee  BIOX is currently a second-generation plant. We use agricultural residues. To Mr. Easter's point, we actually are using pork byproducts as the fats. The things that are not edible we turn into fuel and put in people's cars. So we're already there. We're looking to build some mo

Agriculture committee  Our point is that we are there now in biodiesel. The next big breakthrough in biodiesel will be algae, of which 50% by weight is fat. Fat is what you make biodiesel out of. Algae is being researched. We're heavily involved in research into algae and the separation of the fat. I t

Agriculture committee  As for biodiesel, I think we could do that. We're already there. Of the 120 million litres in Canada, almost 100 million litres of it is second generation. We're already there to some extent. We just need to move the market forward.

Agriculture committee  As the largest producer of biodiesel in Canada and people who wants to invest a great deal more into this economy in doing biodiesel, we are a non-food-inputs—i.e. second-generation—producer. It's a question of economic certainty. Investors have a really hard time getting their h