Natural Resources committee  The two provinces have very different market models. Alberta—

Natural Resources committee  We tend to buy overnight when they have surplus, so either their generation is backed off or they're not running any of their expensive generation, and—

Natural Resources committee  —we buy when it's inexpensive, and then we provide energy when it has higher value to them. On a peak when they'd have to run an $800 facility, we're selling it to them and keeping the costs down for Albertans.

Natural Resources committee  As I said in my verbal address, the carbon tax in Alberta is going to go a long way to helping that. In January next year, when they start to implement their CCR in Alberta—that's the carbon competitiveness regulation—that's going to raise the price of coal generation there relat

Natural Resources committee  Before we go too far along the road of trying to figure out how we're going to build more transmission capacity, we're working right now on trying to figure out whether there's an economic case to be made for better coordination between the provinces. We also have to work out how

Natural Resources committee  Thanks, Mike. I would like to thank the committee for inviting us to speak today regarding strategic interties. At a high level, it seems pretty clear that there is much to be gained, both economically and environmentally, from improved and expanded wholesale electricity trade