Natural Resources committee  I can't give you the magic number that it's feasible over. It depends upon the distance, the amount of electricity, what the geography is, how many different jurisdictions you have to go through, how many regions, and how many first nations or indigenous claims you have to go thr

Natural Resources committee  That would be a big part of it. The other part, of course, is that you have to be able to get the electricity from a particular jurisdiction. Is that jurisdiction able to provide the electricity at a price and volume that beats what the buying jurisdiction could produce it for?

Natural Resources committee  Right. I mean, I'm not saying it doesn't make sense to do it in some cases. I'm just saying it's not a magic bullet. You have to look at all the different variables.

Natural Resources committee  Sure. Electricity right now is a product that we use on demand. One of the other folks has talked about storage, and we will get there, but we don't have a lot of storage right now so demand electricity essentially gets used when it's created. We don't have enough storage. The re

Natural Resources committee  That's just from Bruce.

Natural Resources committee  Let me take a crack at that to start. When you're talking about forms of generation, we need to bear in mind that all forms of electricity generation have different characteristics. They have different strengths and weaknesses. One of the strengths of our country is that we have

Natural Resources committee  I think the starting point is to look at the way our system has grown up. We have the provincial jurisdictions with the electricity, but we have local grids and there is local generation. There's been a lot of investment over the years in that and that has to be where we start fr

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much. First let me thank the committee for the invitation to appear today. This is an important study. Interties are a very important component to the electricity system and I'm glad to see the committee studying it. I do want to stress that while it's an importan