Natural Resources committee  I can give a quick answer to that.

Natural Resources committee  I'll maybe add that there are hundreds of these examples, but maybe add the SaskPower Boundary Dam, where SaskPower is now being seen as a world leader in carbon capture and actually are seeing this as a business line, a new business line where they'll actually export that knowle

Natural Resources committee  The CCS...yes, it's in the electricity.

Natural Resources committee  More important, it's not only the technology; it's the services that come with it. It's the engineering knowledge that comes with doing that kind of project that has major applications in the oil sands too.

Natural Resources committee  Certainly. First of all, I would like to point out that the industry has invested around $1 billion in research and development, mostly to address environmental issues. I think those investments have had a positive impact. Right now, when we use the in situ approach, 90% of the

Natural Resources committee  For example, planned investment in billions for 2012 and this is just for energy, so it's not necessarily oil and gas. In Newfoundland, it's $34.4 billion; in Nova Scotia, it's $14.1 billion; in Alberta, it's $212.3 billion; and in British Columbia, it's $99.1 billion. I could le

Natural Resources committee  That's correct. They're overall energy.

Natural Resources committee  I have some statistics for planned investments, for example in 2012, in billions by province for the energy sector.

Natural Resources committee  I would just add that some of the jobs are also manufacturing jobs, providing services or technologies and equipment for the oil and gas, and a lot of that is located in Ontario. That's where you also get the crosscutting nature of the impact from the industry.

Natural Resources committee  In terms of innovation, the federal government has a role to support industry in some of its activities as well as a role to generate knowledge for standards and to develop regulations and ensure that the best evidence possible is out there. Just letting industry do their own t

Natural Resources committee  CANMET labs are definitely the core energy performers of R and D for Natural Resources Canada. As I said before, we count about 415 employees, and that number is complemented by other parts of the department that do research in energy. We deliver on a lot of the funding that's p

Natural Resources committee  Yes, I would like to give an example. Canada's oil sands producers have created a new alliance, COSIA, which focuses on R&D co-operation in finding solutions to environmental problems related to oil sands mining. There are many examples of very positive things being done righ

Natural Resources committee  On international collaboration, I would add that the clean energy dialogue or some of the programs put in place by foreign affairs to promote science technology collaboration between ourselves and China or ourselves and India are all also bright lights.

Natural Resources committee  I think so. The technologies may change, but I think the way we do things and driving the partnerships deeper and stronger among business, government, and universities is the way to go.

Natural Resources committee  I think I'm going to go back to my example earlier of clean tech, which includes renewable energy and bioenergy companies. These companies are noticing that innovation and developing new technologies and accessing new markets is the only way for survival, especially for Canadian