Natural Resources committee  There are a number of areas of research. Some of our colleagues in the Canadian Forest Service might be in a better position to talk about some of the programs with biorefineries and what you do in moving the pulp and paper industry forward to one that produces diverse products.

Natural Resources committee  There have been two tracks for hydrogen. One, which I think has been a longer-term type of proposition, has been looking at hydrogen as a storage mechanism for energy. It's about being able to use renewables more efficiently, maybe generating electricity when you don't necessaril

Natural Resources committee  In addition to these employees, we have people working at the Geological Survey of Canada, especially in the area of geological formations, in the energy sector. The survey has a staff of approximately 500 employees, with about 10% working on energy-related questions in the labor

Natural Resources committee  Yes, there are two types of geothermal you can look at. You can either look at geothermal to produce electricity or geothermal more in a heat exchange—

Natural Resources committee  It is a clean form of energy as you are using the ground, basically, to heat water.

Natural Resources committee  It's a question of circulating the water through....

Natural Resources committee  The technologies do exist for geothermal. Some provinces have programs specifically to encourage this type of local system for geothermal. This is much less of a technology challenge, so it's not an R and D problem per se. It's a question of how you implement technologies, how yo

Natural Resources committee  It could cost a lot of money. It depends where your house is built. These systems tend to be fairly expensive compared to traditional systems of furnaces. It's the type of system that could be applied more to a community than to a single house.

Natural Resources committee  Definitely. This is why these investments are going in: so that the industry does become cleaner and the amount of water used is reduced. Perhaps I could call on one of our colleagues here who has done a lot of work in the performance of the oil sands, in particular, to say a b

Natural Resources committee  Mr. Chair, I'd like to invite Kim Kasperski from our research laboratories in Devon.

Natural Resources committee  It can directly benefit through employment if it's technologies that we export. As well, it can have a positive influence as the processes we are using are getting cleaner and cleaner. It can really influence international developments following in the same track by having techno

Natural Resources committee  Again, this is outside my area of expertise. I work in the S and T area and I'm not a policy person or a politician.

Natural Resources committee  It would be to policy folks, whether they are in our department or in Environment Canada....

Natural Resources committee  Again, it's not my area of expertise.

Natural Resources committee  There's a suite of ecoENERGY programs. This one, which is the ecoENERGY innovation initiative, is a follow-on to the ecoENERGY technology initiative. It was really restructured in order to look at specific challenges on the integration of clean energy. That's on the demonstration