Refine by MP, party, committee, province, or result type.

Results 1-15 of 24
Sorted by relevance | Sort by date: newest first / oldest first

Agriculture committee  Not in the heating related to barns....

October 17th, 2022Committee meeting

Branden Leslie

Agriculture committee  With Bill C-206, in the previous Parliament, the criticism of the bill then was that it was overly broad. I believe the intention of bringing in language such as the example of heating or cooling of livestock barns is meant to actually narrow that a little so that it could be a l

October 17th, 2022Committee meeting

Branden Leslie

Agriculture committee  As an alternative to...?

October 17th, 2022Committee meeting

Branden Leslie

Agriculture committee  I'd say fossil fuels make up the core use, right now.

October 17th, 2022Committee meeting

Branden Leslie

Agriculture committee  Certainly, that's the hope. I think everybody agrees we would like to transition. It's just a matter of how quickly we can scale up. These pilots are great opportunities to highlight what might work. It's what we call an “extension” in our industry and others. That's one of the

October 17th, 2022Committee meeting

Branden Leslie

Agriculture committee  From the manufacturing and every aspect of it.... I couldn't predict how long that might take.

October 17th, 2022Committee meeting

Branden Leslie

Agriculture committee  I would be curious about the cost of him converting to that fuel source. I would be curious about the fuel source and what impact it might have on his operation. I'm not here to defend the use of fossil fuels in this operation. I'm here to explain that this is the way farmers ac

October 17th, 2022Committee meeting

Branden Leslie

Agriculture committee  I haven't seen a specific enough breakdown of agricultural GHG emissions to even hazard a guess as to what that specific part would be. I'm not sure about other folks on the panel.

October 17th, 2022Committee meeting

Branden Leslie

Agriculture committee  Sure. I will say, in defence of the government, that there has been a program for grain dryers specifically. The challenge with it is that grain dryers are an expensive piece of equipment. To upgrade or to buy a new one, we're talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars. Even

October 17th, 2022Committee meeting

Branden Leslie

Agriculture committee  Yes. In this example, the program specifically for grain dryers was filled up very quickly. Again, it could be a $500,000 grant for a large operation for a new grain dryer from scratch. This is a major investment in one operation. If you extrapolate that across the country, acros

October 17th, 2022Committee meeting

Branden Leslie

Agriculture committee  I couldn't speak to the advancements and innovations in building heating and cooling.

October 17th, 2022Committee meeting

Branden Leslie

Agriculture committee  On the second part there, I do, sure. We represent the grain growers. We do have, obviously, mixed farm operations involved as well, but I don't want to speak too much for the livestock sector. When you look at the consumer world, my home is heated by natural gas. To see a tran

October 17th, 2022Committee meeting

Branden Leslie

Agriculture committee  As it relates to the 13%, this is a challenge because there's no uniform application of how much of a rebate you will get. It is based on your expenses and not the amount of fuel you use.

October 17th, 2022Committee meeting

Branden Leslie

Agriculture committee  Again, it's problematic. Corn is a good example. There's a necessity to dry corn. It is coming off at too high of a moisture level, and you have to dry it to store it. You might bring off a cereal crop at the correct moisture of 13%, 14% or 15%. You can take it off via air dryin

October 17th, 2022Committee meeting

Branden Leslie

Agriculture committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Drouin. It's tough to predict where innovation might go. I'd love to say that in eight years we're going to have over half of Canadian dryers converted to some other fuel source. That would probably be a bit of a stretch. Maybe it would have taken

October 17th, 2022Committee meeting

Branden Leslie