Natural Resources committee  Let's pick a product. We were discussing hydrogen, so let's pick hydrogen. If you have to produce hydrogen from biomass—and let's pick a feedstock, forest biomass, which is forest residue—first you have to estimate what the emissions are associated with each of the unit operatio

Natural Resources committee  You have to take the natural gas, let's say, to produce heat and power. The biggest difference comes in with the combustion emissions that you take. In any life cycle of these fuels, if you look at the combustion portion of the fuel, that's about 70% to 80% of the whole life cycl

Natural Resources committee  You would need the large capacity of the plant. These plants.... It's not as if capacity is what they're not doing today. If you look at the forest industry today, you have plants that are at the scale of 700,000 tonnes or even a million tonnes per year. They are processing that

Natural Resources committee  Thank you.

Natural Resources committee  Typically, if we look at the life cycle of any of these feedstocks, especially when you're using biomass—let's say forest biomass—if you're using it for producing renewable natural gas, the key aspect that goes into the emissions and contributes to the overall life-cycle emission

Natural Resources committee  Yes. You could produce biohydrogen from a range of these different biomass feedstocks. When I refer to these feedstocks, they could be wheat, straw, the whole tree biomass or forest residues. Then there are different processes for how you can produce this hydrogen, which could be

Natural Resources committee  When we talk about biomass utilization, we look at forest or field-based biomass. What I mean by forest-based biomass is this: Let's say that you're looking at forest residues. You have these in the forest. You have to bring these to a location to process them and convert them in

Natural Resources committee  Just to give you a perspective in terms of.... I'll focus more on the lignocellulosic biomass like forest biomass. If you look at all of Canada, we are talking about...and this is mostly the residues. About 21 million tonnes of forest residue is available per year. If you think a

Natural Resources committee  If you look at the evidence—and this is the evidence that exists from the past several years—typically, there would be some increase in the cost. There is a food versus fuel debate all the time in terms of, if you divert it, then the cost goes up. That's why my point is to use th

Natural Resources committee  Yes. Canada could become a key player in the biomass-based economy because we have a large potential for biomass and well-developed forest, agriculture and energy industries. Existing infrastructure and expertise can be used to develop the bioeconomy. These are opportunities to

Natural Resources committee  Good afternoon, members of Parliament and everybody in the audience. It is a pleasure to be here, and thank you for giving me the opportunity to share my thoughts on the challenges and opportunities for the biofuel industry in Canada and the life-cycle greenhouse gas—that is GHG—