Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Jackson. I will focus on one example of how Alberta's leadership in carbon pricing and offsets has created a vehicle for substantial private sector financing for, and investment in, emissions reduction technology innovation and implementation. Fifteen years ago, Alberta established the first functioning carbon markets in North America.

Environment committee  It really is critical. We get lectured a lot. In the past, we were lectured a lot by the European Union about how terrible it was in Canada, with dirty oil and all of those things. We all have a way to go to improve everything we're doing here, but we also found at the same time that they were offshoring into Russia and into jurisdictions that didn't have any regulation.

Environment committee  For example, six years ago, in Calgary, we established the Methane Emission Leadership Alliance. Methane is one of those examples in which, as Darcy pointed out, 18,000 different facilities were reviewed to come up with a baseline. Many different producers did a lot of that background work.

Environment committee  Thank you very much for this opportunity to appear before the committee and discuss Carbon Connect International's implementation of clean technologies in Canada.

Environment committee  One of the big issues is, how do we continue this momentum? One of the things we strongly encourage the federal government to do is to continue to fund the implementation of methane emissions reduction technologies and take advantage of programs that are occurring across the country that are working right now.