Environment committee  I don't. I had some meetings down there on an energy efficiency project that we were doing, but I didn't run across him in the early days of climate change. Yes, many of us are still around. What are we still doing? That's the issue.

Environment committee  That's correct.

Environment committee  We work off an 80:20 formula, so we retained 20% for our administrative costs and 80% went to the farmer. Ultimately, the credit accrues back to the land, so the owners of the credit are the landowners themselves. Therefore, because they are the owners, they get the majority of t

Environment committee  Thank you very much.

Environment committee  As aggregators, we were the largest aggregator in 2007. In the 18 months following the announcement by Premier Stelmach and his Conservative government to implement that cap and trade program, we generated $5 million in revenue, $3 million of which was disbursed back to the farme

Environment committee  All they had to do was sign a contract with us as their agent aggregator, and then we took care of the aggregation process. As long as they were following the best practices of agriculture like the one-pass.... No-till in particular was a main plank of that policy. If they were d

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  That's correct. Also, I had a lot of talk with biofuel refineries, a lot of Hutterite colonies that wanted to get into biodigesters. There were a lot of different innovations that came up as a result of land use change, both in the agricultural and forestry sectors. I spent a

Environment committee  Yes. That's what we want to emphasize with farmers in particular, that not only would they get an additional revenue stream from the carbon trade, but they would also get increased productivity so that they'd have better yields. That was proven out in a number of studies. It re

Environment committee  Yes, I tend to agree with that. I've spent many hours, many evenings, going around talking to various farmers. I think I must have been at over 100 farmer meetings. Our model was very constituency based, so I wanted to get on the ground to talk directly to farmers and show them

Environment committee  I can. Thank you.

Environment committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I'd like to start off by thanking the committee for taking the time to hear me. I'd like to acknowledge that I am on the traditional territory of the Songhees Nation here in Victoria, B.C. on a beautiful rainy day today, and that I am the son