Natural Resources committee  I think you're talking about electricity production or heat and power. Is that what you're referring to?

Natural Resources committee  We're in the chemical business, so it's a little bit different. We produce liquid fuels. Those are two different things. We don't produce electricity. That's the main—

Natural Resources committee  We tested over 25 types of feedstock that industry asked us to test that were really waste, that had no value for them. I'm not talking about that feedstock. We have the capacity to help industries get rid of their residues. I'm not talking about things that have value for them,

Natural Resources committee  The vision, the idea, came from Dr. Esteban Chornet, a retired professor of chemical engineering at the Université de Sherbrooke. He was involved in looking at solutions to take forest residues to produce electricity at the time, and he had the idea in the nineties of trying to f

Natural Resources committee  A standard Enerkem system like this one, which is the one in Edmonton, takes 100,000 dry metric tonnes of garbage and produces over 40 million litres of ethanol. This is its annual capacity. The volume in the wet basis, because usually the garbage is mixed with wet materials, is

Natural Resources committee  Totally. In the case of Edmonton, today, with recycling and composting, they are achieving a waste diversion rate from landfills of about 55%. That's very high. With our facility, this rate will increase to 90%, so with only 10% still going to landfills.

Natural Resources committee  Yes, I can be very quick. The first one was on growth capital support. They were very good at putting money in R and D. The thing is that if we only focus on helping R and D, and we don't look at it from a holistic approach, we create these companies that remain small. They don't

Natural Resources committee  Enerkem is the only one that can produce ethanol and methanol using full solid waste. Our process is different from what you are referring to, in that you are referring to plasmafication, which operates at very high temperatures, more like 4,000°C or 5,000°C. We operate at low se

Natural Resources committee  It's slower, but we also use catalysts to convert to liquid products, rather than a gas product.

Natural Resources committee  I can explain that. This is based on the recognized life cycle model to calculate a reduction in the biofuel section. In the case of Enerkem, not only do we reduce the GHG emissions when the ethanol is burned in the gasoline, in the engine, but also there's a factor where we avoi

Natural Resources committee  We haven't done that type of calculation. I think emissions from waste in Canada are below 10%. I may have the Quebec number in mind, but it's not the largest one. I think transportation is a bigger one. In terms of volume, yes, it's probably at least 100,000 tonnes per facilit

Natural Resources committee  It's the 10¢ fuel excise tax. This exemption was used in the past to kick-start the first-generation ethanol industry. Then it was replaced by a producer credit program, which does not exist. We could not really benefit from it, because we were really the second wave of the biofu

Natural Resources committee  On their products, yes, exactly. We would like to see the same—

Natural Resources committee  The 10%?

Natural Resources committee  On the portion that is the biofuel, that 10% would be applied.