Natural Resources committee  The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers has issued one benchmarking study comparing the efficacy and strictness of Canadian regulations on oil and gas to many other jurisdictions in the world, and Canada came out on top in that study, including being stricter and more eff

Natural Resources committee  First, I'll go to the end and go back to the example I gave of Questor, which has the incinerator technology. To the extent there was an additional carbon cost, it could make the difference to say maybe I'll incinerate versus doing flaring. I think there's an example that would s

Natural Resources committee  I think often a broad tax on everything can act like a sledgehammer trying to solve a specific problem. As Evergreen alluded to, and as I did in my recommendations, we've seen often that a regulation limiting discharge at a sewage treatment plant, for example, will then allow peo

Natural Resources committee  I don't have enough business in the United States, personally, to be able to make a helpful comment to you on that.

Natural Resources committee  I'll start with your last point and of course, there's been this new report that came out through the David Suzuki Foundation that methane has been under-reported in the industry. I think the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers has come out quite strongly to refute the un

Natural Resources committee  We have a seven-phase plan from now until 2030. It aligns with the Transition énergétique Québec, which is their plan and actually goes to 2050 but they have milestones at 2020, 2030, and 2050. We're lining up with the 2030 milestone as a target to be at zero-emissions production

Natural Resources committee  Yes. What I think we're missing in a lot of our policy discussions is the impact that our policy at home can make internationally. We might think we're incenting people to reduce emissions by putting a tax on them, but we could just as easily be incenting people in Quebec and Ont

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you for inviting me for the second time to participate in your committee's work. This is a great honour for me. My name is Michael Binnion, and I am the chairman of the Quebec Oil and Gas Association, QOGA. Our organization was created to encourage d