Natural Resources committee  The strategy prioritizes low-carbon hydrogen regardless of production pathway, whether that's using natural gas or petroleum with carbon abatement. As I mentioned, we actually know now that there are technologies and companies that can produce very low, almost-net-zero hydrogen b

Natural Resources committee  Absolutely. You're exactly correct. Many of the investments that are being made and announced in budget 2021 are really about driving down emissions from our conventional oil and gas sector. The carbon capture, utilization and storage tax credit, the CCUS investments for RD&amp

Natural Resources committee  I'll quantify a bit what the hydrogen strategy points to, and what some of the analysis that was done for the strategy points to as well. Right now, grey hydrogen, conventional hydrogen production in Canada, has about 100 grams of CO2 produced per megajoule of hydrogen. If you

Natural Resources committee  I think it's important to also note that the type of biofuels that we're looking at are advanced biofuels that can take the by-product, so yes, you can harvest all of your food crops, and the leftover waste or crop pieces can also be converted to advanced ethanol and advanced bio

Natural Resources committee  The hydrogen strategy modelling done for the strategy shows that by 2030, if hydrogen makes up 6% of our energy source, it could drive down emissions by 45 megatonnes. That number will grow by 2050. If hydrogen reaches 30% of our energy source, that results in 190 megatonnes of e

Natural Resources committee  Thank you. My apologies; I think Mollie dropped off. Maybe her house went through a tunnel. Anyway, the hydrogen strategy points to both economic and environmental opportunities across the entire country. It's a great point. It really positions us to be the world leader for hyd

Natural Resources committee  Sure. Thank you. Maybe we'll step back and just do a bit of the fundamentals. You can produce hydrogen in a number of different ways. By taking natural gas and hitting it with steam at a high temperature, you produce hydrogen and CO2. That's traditional grey hydrogen. If you add

Natural Resources committee  I was the lead on the development of the hydrogen strategy. The strategy itself was more than three years of work, with more than 15 different studies that looked at production pathways across the country. It looked at end-use opportunities and supply chain requirements across th

Natural Resources committee  As Mollie mentioned, Canada has opportunities to produce very low-carbon, low-cost hydrogen between now and 2030 or 2040 and 2050. A number of investments made in the budget this year will also support significant investments in carbon capture, utilization and storage. The tax br

Natural Resources committee  Thank you. As with many of our other programs, Natural Resources Canada projects, as Mollie said, will be solicited by a competitive process and then enter into a contribution agreement whereby Canada shares the cost of the project with the private sector or with indigenous orga