Environment committee  All of our coal at the Wabamun Lake area, which would be our Sundance and Keephills plants—2,000 megawatts at Sundance, and then there will be 1,200 megawatts at Keephills—would qualify. There is also a large plant out by Hanna, at Sheerness, that would also qualify. The projec

Environment committee  The only thing I can say on the Athabasca is it would be important, if the committee is interested in a discussion on that, to look at some of the work being done in Alberta on the storage mechanisms that are required to ensure you have the ability to have the water at a steady s

Environment committee  In terms of a portion of the water, it's a very small amount. I'll have to get the exact number for the committee, and we can forward that to you. What was your second question?

Environment committee  We condense the water that also comes out of the flue gas. We return that back to the cooling pond, so it becomes makeup water.

Environment committee  In regard to Mountaineer, the small one that's proven is in the 10-megawatt range. Ours is 100 megawatts. AEP is also undertaking a feed study—they were the ones who did the first phase of Mountaineer—to do a 235-megawatt project attached to a 1,300-megawatt coal plant.

Environment committee  Yes. There are estimates that have ranged from 10% to 20%. The actual estimate for this project is confidential. It's seen by the project vendor as competitive information. What we do know is that in the early estimates from Mountaineer—the pilot project that preceded this one—

Environment committee  I actually don't think it's a fair assessment. And I don't think it's fair to say that my presentation confirms that there isn't potential for CCS in the oil sands. To be fair to the people who are working hard on these files in the oil sands, what my presentation was intended t

Environment committee  It's really quite simple. Alberta sits on about 300 years of a very low-cost, very low-sulfur, strong coal resource that we've been using in this province since the 1950s—in fact, the plant we're decommissioning tomorrow is over 50 years old. That has created a strong advantage i

Environment committee  At this point, we do not. We'd like to get Project Pioneer up and running and successful; then we'll reassess after that.

Environment committee  There are many elements to safety—safety during construction, safety of the overall project—but the key element here is the safety of ensuring that the CO2 goes to where we say it should go and stays there. The number one element of our plan relative to that is to ensure, throug

Environment committee  Currently, we're doing a FEED study, a front end engineering and design study. Our partners are getting together with Alstom to basically do the first work on the design engineering and make sure that the costing all comes together relative to what we proposed, so that we and the

Environment committee  I am not an expert at CO2 recovery in the oil sands, so I could not comment on that. I do think it is feasible relative to the coal power plants in Alberta that we own that are in the Wabamun area.

Environment committee  The way I look at the economic benefit is I think people tend to think about energy as what are the lowest-cost energy resources you have in your region that can enable you to deliver low-cost energy but make it environmentally effective. When you think about coal in Alberta, for

Environment committee  No. Our geothermal is invested in California and it's from heat that comes out of the ground. It's not mine water.

Environment committee  I, myself, am not certain. My colleagues here say there is some capacity there. It would not be similar to what we have in Alberta, and you have to do specific studies for each site to really understand the geology. For example, on the west coast, we've done a study for our Centr