Natural Resources committee  Wow, we could be here the rest of the day on that one, but I'll do my best to sum it up for you. Essentially, the International Maritime Organization, which has been around since the 1950s, is the government of shipping. Canada is a very active member. There are 170 marine state

Natural Resources committee  I'd be happy to. First of all, it's the Chamber of Shipping that registers all the inbound vessels for their pollution response management contract. Under Canadian law, every ship that's coming into Canadian waters does have to sign up for a spill response in the event that ther

Natural Resources committee  It varies from year to year, but it's between 60 and 70 tankers a year.

Natural Resources committee  Sixty, between 60 and 70.

Natural Resources committee  Both worldwide and regionally, that's correct, yes.

Natural Resources committee  I'm talking about the west coast. The Kinder Morgan project has actually been functioning since the 1950s and there have been no related accidents to tanker traffic in and out of the Kinder Morgan facility throughout that time. The only incident was the land-based spill.

Natural Resources committee  The context of my remarks was LNG, and more than half of the world's LNG projects today, development projects, are currently in Australia. Australia is forecast to be the world's largest supplier of LNG by 2020, in other words, by the end of this decade. It will overtake the stat

Natural Resources committee  First, on the issue of the tanker panel, we think it's a very positive move that the federal government has announced. As I said a moment ago, even if you can squeeze 1% improvement out of the safety record of our industry, let's go for it and use the tanker panel as a way to get

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Garneau. The reason I make those comments is that you have to look at the numbers and understand what is actually going on here in British Columbia at the moment. I'll answer your question directly, but I'll just give it some context. The Enbridge project has bee

Natural Resources committee  First of all, yes, of course; as I said earlier, we will move whatever needs to be moved. The world LNG fleet, the fleet of LNG carriers, is rapidly expanding. It's about 300 ships now. By 2015 or 2016, it will be about 400 ships. So the capacity to move western Canadian exports,

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Obviously, speaking on behalf of the marine industry here in British Columbia, we have a certain perspective on the diversification of Canada's economy and, in particular, the natural resources, and the challenges and opportunities that this pr