Natural Resources committee  Thank you. There are a number of questions in there. I will do my best to answer all of them for you. Yes, this was a $1.4-million project. Unfortunately, I don't have the information in front of me to know all of the different 19 service companies that we directly supported. F

Natural Resources committee  Yes, I do. The TIER program has been, I believe, instrumental in promoting the development of new technologies. The penalties paid by large emitters into that program have been redirected into targeted funding initiatives for the development of new technologies from all ranges of

Natural Resources committee  Absolutely. The project that we executed to transport previously flared natural gas for processing and to the market [Technical difficulty—Editor] slightly above their emissions limit under the provincial methane regulations. The Saskatchewan provincial methane regulations are s

Natural Resources committee  Thank you. I'm very familiar with that program.

Natural Resources committee  Yes, there are numerous ways in which the TIER program is structured quite well. The federal government programs do follow a number of them quite similarly. TIER does provide standards for quantifying emissions and associated emission reductions for projects that participate in t

Natural Resources committee  Yes.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for the question. There are emission reduction activities and projects that are profitable in different ways. They have varying abatement costs. I've seen in the range of $10 to $20 per tonne, all the way up to $300 per tonne to reduce emissions. While the economy has

Natural Resources committee  The topic of carbon capture is not an area within my expertise, so I cannot speak to it in detail. I do understand that the technology is very expensive to install and operate. It's carbon capture processing in particular that requires government incentives to help get it across

Natural Resources committee  Yes, thank you. I see the regulations playing a role to essentially set the minimum expectation of industry. It's to set the bar of where every producer needs to get to if they aren't there already. Where I see incentives like the ERF coming into play is to reach beyond that, t

Natural Resources committee  Yes, at Whitecap we believe this incentive should support emitters who face very high costs to decarbonize. We don't think it's necessary for the capital spend on carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery, or CO2-EOR, to attract the investment credit itself. However, it should support

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. That's a great question for us. The project that was approved by Highrock Resources is the only project we have submitted in the first two rounds to the ERF and have executed. For that project in particular, it was completed at an oil production facility in

Natural Resources committee  Yes, I absolutely agree that carbon capture is and will be a key tool for society to meet our commitments under international agreements such as the Paris Agreement. We will require society to make large and rapid emissions reductions at scales we haven't seen in the past. This i

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. That's another great question. I feel that we should be proud as Canadians that we have been a pioneer in carbon capture and a global leader in this space. Arguably, many of the leading experts in carbon capture are Canadian. We've seen multiple IEA and IPC

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the opportunity to speak with your committee today about Natural Resources Canada's emissions reduction fund. As you mentioned, I am the director of regulatory and environmental sustainability here at Whitecap Resources, an oil and gas producer with ass