Natural Resources committee  It's a good question, and it's a tough one. We have utilities that deliver natural gas and we have reforming technologies that allow us to take natural gas to produce hydrogen. That's where I think we should start in terms of a plan, which is to focus on those industries that a

Natural Resources committee  My suggestion would be to focus on the big industries where we could use capital injection. I would focus, at least in eastern Canada, on iron and producing green steel. If we were to have a green steel strategy in this country, it would drive so much innovation in mining, metal

Natural Resources committee  The number one area where we spend time and money on is answering questions from government analysts at the environmental agencies. It's not that these questions aren't good, but they're continuous, for years. It's the re-asking of certain questions in different ways. Asking us t

Natural Resources committee  I think it's critical. It's critical for nuclear and many other uses in industries, albeit it's niche compared to other minerals like precious metals and base metals like copper and nickel. The processing of those components can be done for the most part in North America, althoug

Natural Resources committee  By market, do you mean the minerals market or the capital market?

Natural Resources committee  I would say, in terms of titanium, that we have good productions of titanium out of Canada in Quebec, really from one supplier, but we have massive titanium resources in the country that are undeveloped. Quebec could be a world leader in vanadium, and it could be a world leader i

Natural Resources committee  I would say 10 to 15 years.

Natural Resources committee  It could be, depending on the political incentive. A lot of this is about social acceptance and political will. You have to have the rocks and minerals to be able to do that. In Canada, we're blessed with this. What could reduce the timeline from conception of a project to it

Natural Resources committee  Intentions aside—because it's always hard to see what those are—we have all the expertise here to be able to do it. We should be building our own projects. We should be developing and growing our own companies. We know that's what creates economic wealth in our country. As a ma

Natural Resources committee  We started as a greenfield project in 2008 and have worked all the way from, essentially, discovering the deposit to developing the geological dataset, to going through feasibility and environmental studies over the years. We garnered local support with the natives, municipalitie

Natural Resources committee  In the case of the BlackRock project, the vanadium and titanium and the iron fraction will be refined in Saguenay. An important element of our project is that it's an integrated project and we will be able to send these to market. We are fully permitted for an additional ferrova

Natural Resources committee  We've been working on environmental permitting, and that's largely completed. We have a certificate of authorization for both the mine, which is located near Chibougamau, and the metallurgical complex in Saguenay. There are a lot of conditions tied to responsibly developing this

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman and committee. My name is Sean Cleary. I'm chairman and CEO at BlackRock Metals. We're building a $1.3-billion critical minerals project in Quebec. You can visit www.blackrockmetals.com for a summary of the project. This project consists of a fully inte