Natural Resources committee  I don't see myself as an advocate particularly. It's one of the potentially important technologies. It is one of the few technologies that, with coal-fired power, allows you to produce gigawatt-scale, dispatchable electricity—that means it's on when you want it and is not variabl

Natural Resources committee  I think it's going to be dominated by China. China is rapidly standardizing on the Westinghouse AP1000 reactor, and they are focused very seriously. I think it's time for, say, Canada to wake up and think about what's happening globally and look around a little bit.

Natural Resources committee  Thanks. I would take issue with two things there. It's certainly true that what the Germans did was extraordinarily expensive and produced little obvious benefit. There were literally tens of billions spent developing solar PV technologies in Germany, which had a minuscule im

Natural Resources committee  I don't think it's a matter of position; it's a matter of basic physics and conservation of mass. We cannot put gigatonnes of carbon in the atmosphere and expect a stable climate, period. You could still use carbon-based fuels if you put the carbon back in the ground, with carbo

Natural Resources committee  It's doing very well. Overall, I'd say that over the last decade--or more--the Canadian parliaments have pretty much failed to grapple with this issue seriously. Nevertheless, some work has been done. It's easy to imagine that the Europeans are doing much better, but in fact th

Natural Resources committee  We will do this not, I think, by using less energy, and not by consumer choice. We will do this by switching our primary energy supply to supplies that don't use carbon. It's important to think about the enormous success we've had in the rich world since the Second World War in

Natural Resources committee  First of all, let me give you a few numbers, and then let me answer your more strategic questions. On a well-to-wheels basis--that is, counting both the emissions at the source and at the use phase, when people burn the oil in their tanks--the oil sands carbon emissions are perh

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much for having me today. I'll start by saying a few words about energy security and the extent to which this topic really is an energy security topic, and then talk a little bit about strategy and tactics around the climate and environmental concerns of the oil s