Natural Resources committee  Thank you, sir, and thank you for your long years of public service. I hope you enjoy your “retirement”. We will provide to the committee—in fact, we might have already done it in our briefing notes—the data that we have done. On our website you'll find an analysis from late las

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Weiler. It's really very simple. Of the 100% of emissions coming out of a car, 75% of those come from the crude oil. You pull it out of the ground, process it and burn it. There's nothing you can do to take that fact away. You could reduce the carbon intensity o

Natural Resources committee  There is an export opportunity, absolutely. Canada is not going it alone on climate action. As most Canadians know, we are over-weighted in our natural resource sector capacity to population, so we're a natural for export. We export a lot of our conventional energy and the same i

Natural Resources committee  I would only say that competent bodies, such as Navius Research in British Columbia and others, have studied that exhaustively with their expertise and found that to be not true. The “Biofuels in Canada 2020” report, which you can find on their website, lays out, by province, the

Natural Resources committee  Yes.

Natural Resources committee  I can. Thanks for the question. I can point to Canada. The data in Canada indicates that, over the last 20 years, soil organic carbon in the agricultural regions that have produced biofuel feedstocks have increased substantially, so Canadian soils have become a net sink, if you

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. My name is Ian Thomson, and I am the president of Advanced Biofuels Canada. I'm joined here by my colleague Fred Ghatala, the director of carbon and sustainability for our organization. I wish to convey this morning two core ideas relative to the committee