Natural Resources committee  We evaluate our own programs, such as the energy and technology initiative . We've looked at what was performed under that and did an evaluation of that particular program.

Natural Resources committee  I can certainly provide the chair with our evaluation of the program.

Natural Resources committee  It's a provincial jurisdiction in most cases. We do work with the provinces. The role of the federal government is often to provide science to inform decisions on regulations and policy. Under the new ecoENERGY innovation initiative, seven different projects are being performed

Natural Resources committee  Within the federal government, aside from Natural Resources Canada there are a couple of key performers in energy research and development. The National Research Council is one and Environment Canada is another. Fisheries and Oceans also does some work with energy development i

Natural Resources committee  On CCS, it's actually a small number of projects, because they are expensive. The Shell Quest project is over $1 billion. The federal contribution is $120 million to that project. Those are large-scale projects, so there are fewer of them. On the small scale, for the $150 millio

Natural Resources committee  The work that Canada has done over the last 30 years in heavy oil, going back to the 1970s, is now being adopted fairly broadly under the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas in which all countries in the hemisphere work together. There's a heavy oil working group, and

Natural Resources committee  Yes, it's meant to include all public investments, whether municipal, provincial or state, or—

Natural Resources committee  What happens is that what is reported to the IEA is reported as an aggregate number for public spending, because different federations have different mechanisms. In some countries, states or provinces do not invest to the extent of producing a public investment number.

Natural Resources committee  As you know, the fossil fuel area is a very active area economically. It contributes a lot directly to GDP. It's an area in which industy has to meet increasingly stringent regulations. Industry is investing a lot; it is also reorganizing itself a bit differently. The Canadian oi

Natural Resources committee  Broadly, yes, we are. The question of public acceptance of any development, whether it be of fossil fuel or shale gas or a large-scale deployment of renewable technologies, is increasingly present. Work being performed now increasingly tries to look at the social science side of

Natural Resources committee  We often look at efficiency as an end-use type of a process, so looking at whether it's industry, buildings, communities, or transport—

Natural Resources committee  It all depends which metric you want to use for innovation. Efficiency again depends on the type of resource you're looking at. It's clear that heavy oil will always be more difficult to extract, and most of the oil reserves globally, going forward, will be produced increasingl

Natural Resources committee  There are a number of metrics that people can look at, depending again upon the context, if you're looking at oil and gas production.

Natural Resources committee  Beyond the source, it's also a question of the host rock. It also depends on some regulations, in some cases.

Natural Resources committee  Again focusing on the energy supply side right now and the innovation side, it's not something we do internally with financing. What we're really trying to promote right now is collaboration, both nationally among different elements of the innovation system as well as internation