Environment committee  That was the investments in forest industry transformation fund.

Environment committee  Thank you. It's very interesting, and I want to continue the discussion a little. I don't want to create issues between the departments, but when I was taking out the trees, I was creating grasslands, native grasslands. In terms of carbon sequestration, an acre of trees—and I kn

Environment committee  I have the same question for agriculture. If I wanted to be a really conscientious environmental farmer, what crop would I grow to sequester the most carbon? Have you looked at that?

Environment committee  It's not the what; it's the how.

Environment committee  Thank you for being with us today. My riding is Kootenay—Columbia, located in southeastern B.C. I have three mountain ranges: the Rockies, the Purcells and the Selkirks. I have dairy farms around the Creston area, but much of East Kootenay is mostly cattle ranching and crops gr

Environment committee  It would be mostly about fertilizer and soil moisture then, or—

Environment committee  My first paid employment was picking rocks and baling hay for farmers in Saskatchewan, so it's come a long way since then.

Environment committee  Absolutely. I want to talk about biofuels for a minute. There is a company that produces biodiesel fuels, in Sparwood, B.C., which is in my riding. It's called Agri-Green Biodiesel. Traditionally, you used mostly corn and sugar cane, etc., for some biofuels. Biodiesel was from f

Environment committee  It would seem to me that burning waste is an environmentally better thing to do than grow crops specifically for biofuels. That's a personal opinion, I guess. If we have a chance, I'd like to talk a bit about carbon offsets, which I always thought were an opportunity just to rel

Environment committee  Well, from my perspective, I'd have to buy them, but for selling—

Environment committee  Thank you. I've lived in British Columbia for decades now, and we've had a carbon tax for the last 10 years. In my riding of Kootenay—Columbia, quite frankly, I haven't heard people complaining about the carbon tax. It's more a discussion about how that money should be properly

Environment committee  Basically, I was referring to a report credited to the Smart Prosperity Institute called ”Economic Tools to Reduce Household Waste and Related Greenhouse Gas Emissions”, which addressed incentive-based strategies. If you get a chance after this meeting, Ms. Miller, to talk a bit

Environment committee  Mr. Moffatt, do you have anything more on incentives?

Environment committee  Thank you. Thank you for being here today. I want to follow up just quickly on the trail itself. It's a spectacular initiative. It crosses Canada. It comes right through my riding of Kootenay—Columbia. The groups that helped to establish the trail, of course, have a concern a

Environment committee  This isn't really new funding. This is restating...dividing it by four years rather than five.