Natural Resources committee  That's a good question. Canada's healthy economy, healthy environment climate plan released on December 10 talked about a two to three fold increase in clean electricity requirement and generation for Canada. In speaking with NRCan officials, they tend to agree that it's at leas

Natural Resources committee  I don't know the answer to that. I do know that there are a number of institutes working on that very question right now that are going to be reporting out over the next year or two. It's a good question.

Natural Resources committee  Globally, I would look at green hydrogen as where the investment money is going for those countries that don't have natural gas assets. Right now in Canada, I think I see blue hydrogen as being kind of a source, and attractive for capital right now, mainly because we have natural

Natural Resources committee  Yes, enhanced oil recovery is when carbon that's pulled out of blue hydrogen production is then in turn transported to an oil reservoir and used to increase and recover oil out of the reservoir. That is happening right now, and much of the carbon coming down the Alberta Carbon Tr

Natural Resources committee  Yes, so Norway is doing some pilot projects right now. What they're planning to do is to take carbon dioxide produced from concrete plants, move that by pipeline off to disused oil platforms, and then use the oil platforms to inject the carbon dioxide into the depleted oil format

Natural Resources committee  Sure. Canada has a number of potential uses for hydrogen. In the industrial sector, it can be used either as a feedstock in terms of chemical production, ethanol and so on. It can be used in fertilizers. It can also be used as a heat source for steel, cement and other reactions t

Natural Resources committee  I think the answer to that question is, currently, yes. If you look at last week's announcement from Air Products Canada, they are planning to use carbon capture and storage and offsetting to get to 95% carbon removal from the project, so that is sufficient. Even two years ago wh

Natural Resources committee  Sure. I'll speak to both of those questions. On the first one, yes, Canada has been sequestering carbon dioxide underground for many years. Shell's Quest project in Alberta has been up and running since 2018, and I believe it has already sequestered several megatonnes of CO2 und

Natural Resources committee  It's a good question. My answer is that Canada's competitive advantage right now is in both green and blue hydrogen. By using blue hydrogen right now, it does two things: One, it gets Canada ready for a green hydrogen revolution and to scale up its production; and two, it's a way

Natural Resources committee  Over the short-term right now, the government is doing a good job on the hydrogen hubs and getting those established. More funding would be required for Canada to really understand the export opportunities to scale up production. We actually need a jurisdictional review that lo

Natural Resources committee  I think Canada is on the right track. It has done the right thing in identifying hubs because what will be appropriate for Alberta and Saskatchewan to feed their industries will be different for Quebec. Quebec, with its large hydro capacity, will have cheap electricity and the ab

Natural Resources committee  I think that's going to be a little ways out, and it's going to be a much more risky venture than other low-carbon fuels that we've talked about on this call today. It may come to fruition at some point in the next year, but it really will depend on the price of electricity and t

Natural Resources committee  It's a good question. I'll go first. Yes, the transition to a net-zero world is going to require massive increases in the metals, minerals and materials to build all of the infrastructure required. What happens when that infrastructure gets to the end of its life and its end-of-

Natural Resources committee  It should be looking at both. Blue hydrogen, obviously, is more cost-competitive and will likely be cost-competitive for at least another decade. Having said that, when you look at the recent announcement by the Biden administration in the U.S., they're looking at green hydrogen

Natural Resources committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair, and members of the committee. My name is Mark Zacharias, and I am a special adviser to Clean Energy Canada, a climate and clean energy think tank at Simon Fraser University. I am based in Victoria, British Columbia. I will be speaking today on how Ca