Environment committee  Yes, I think it is changing. There are huge investments being made.

Environment committee  The oil and gas cleanup was in our 2020 report and was not included in our 2021 report. In our 2020 report, we found that $18 billion went to the oil and gas sector. That was included because most of that money went to Suncor and CNRL, which are companies that have targets in t

Environment committee  The $100 billion number includes a range of things that aren't actually about building climate solutions. It's a number the government throws around, but there's never any documentation of the things that are in there. I would love to see more fulsome documentation. Mostly, a lot

Environment committee  The big one there is the $8 billion net-zero accelerator. Generally, we've been talking about the oil and gas orphan well cleanup. If that had gone to nations or to communities to clean up their own oil and gas wells, that would have been an excellent use of public money. The pro

Environment committee  I'm saying what the IPCC scientists are also saying, which is that the best path to a 1.5°C future includes carbon dioxide removal, but through natural, nature-based solutions and not through engineered CCUS. Certainly, both the IEA and the IPCC don't allow for.... The lion's sh

Environment committee  Certainly, we will need energy.

Environment committee  The energy will come from a mix of renewable sources. In addition, we will have energy efficiency measures that greatly decrease the amount of energy that is required. A combination of those things has been modelled for countries and for the world in allowing us to achieve our

Environment committee  Yes, I would say that having clear definitions is helpful in terms of making sure that globally we're addressing this issue in the same way. I do take the point that sometimes we get so lost in these definitions that we miss the forest for the trees, and that can be very dangerou

Environment committee  One of the most important conclusions is just the sense of urgency. Most countries finished their peer reviews in 12 to 16 months. Canada is approaching the four-year mark and we still haven't seen the self-review portion, let alone when the two countries share.... It really exem

Environment committee  I think we have to put exclusionary principles within the act. We focused on EDC as a Crown corporation, but there are so many Crown corporations that are giving money to the fossil fuel sector, and the problem is that no one is tracking it. This is a really onerous task that is

Environment committee  EDC support is by far the greatest part of Canada's support to the sector. Putting in place exclusion of policies at Export Development Canada is a huge step. You mentioned $5 billion this year. Most years, it's $13 billion. This was a slow year for EDC. Beyond that, I would pu

Environment committee  We really need to be investing in scaling renewable energy power here in Canada, where we are definitely below our potential in renewable energy capacity and the part of our mix that comes from renewable energy outside of hydro. The return on investment is enormous. Building new

Environment committee  I'm not sure about the fears, but definitely in recycling in all sectors—in our EVs, our batteries and our renewable energy—it's important that we really build the kind of circular economy approach to the solutions we want to see, to minimize the environmental impacts. We also ha

Environment committee  Mr. Wilkinson has said various things about CCUS. In the past he has gone on record saying that carbon capture and storage won't be part of the 2030 tool kit because of the timelines that are required to design and build these projects, yet he put forth a plan that banks heavily

Environment committee  Thank you for the invitation to participate today. Last month the world's scientists delivered their starkest assessment yet of the frightening future that awaits us if we fail to act on the climate crisis and limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees. We know that, to avoid catast