Environment committee  It depends how you do it. I wish I could give you the answer. You could do a cap and trade with a cap so tight that we could not afford to ship, you could do a carbon tax so high that we could not afford to ship, or you could do some blend of the two that allows economic adaptati

Environment committee  The size of the carbon tax has to be set by the government. Do we want to be taxed? No. Do we want to be capped? No. Do we want everyone to do something about climate change? Yes. Then, when you come to the actual details of it, a little switch here or there changes everything

Environment committee  I'm not going to talk about European targets, but let's just talk about what the risks are, and there are risks on both sides. So let's say we institute a very vigorous regime and it's not instituted elsewhere. What happens is the jobs are exported and the climate is not helped

Environment committee  Certainly we applaud the idea of having it harmonized within North America. We would caution that it's not just the U.S. that we have to pay attention to. It is also Europe and the non-annex I countries. And let's not pretend that it's a simple piece of policy. It's easy to put

Environment committee  No, but as long as they pay us a nice premium for electricity from biomass, we're going to applaud it.

Environment committee  We don't walk the edge at all; we're right in the centre of it. Deforestation is a huge contributor to greenhouse gases. I have to acknowledge that most deforestation is a result of farming, not forestry, because people clear the lands to plant crops to feed their families in d

Environment committee  Yes, the famous black liquor subsidy in the U.S. is the government's response, and we are very grateful for that response. We needed that billion. We would rather have mountains of cash delivered to the door, but having money to invest in our mills is very useful. I don't want

Environment committee  Certainly the concept of switching to waste-based biofuels is being discussed all over the economy. A lot of the biofuel industry has suffered a bit from there not being a full accounting of the greenhouse gas production. If you plant a crop, harvest it, bring it to a processor,

Environment committee  We're not looking for our sector to come out on top of other sectors. We're just looking to be able to keep the jobs we have in rural Canada. If you're talking about the trade-off between, say, oil and gas, and the forestry sector, we don't want to be disadvantaged to accommodate

Environment committee  It is critical that the government work with us to bring about these changes, this transformation. We would prefer there to be a global market in which only private companies would compete. But that is a dream, not the reality. In Europe and the U.S., the government is still invo

Environment committee  Technically, you can get to where we have to go with intensity targets or with absolute targets. It depends on how big they are. So if you have an intensity target that's veryexigent, we will have an absolute reduction. If you have an absolute reduction target, of course you'll g

Environment committee  It's hard to compare, because the U.S. funding seems to crop up--they're going to build a bridge out of corn; they have parts of the Farm Bill; then it's going the other way. We're waiting to see. I think it's fair to say, and I say it with a fair bit of confidence, that in Cana

Environment committee  Yes, we've seen it.

Environment committee  Last time I heard, it sounded as if they were considering international offsets. I suggest that you put that to the Minister of the Environment rather than to the forest industry. In terms of the role of international credits, I think it's worth noting that 20% of greenhouse gas

Environment committee  We expected it to have a bigger dampening than what we saw. I'm not an entomologist, so I can't claim to be an expert witness on beetle biology, but the explosion of numbers has led to a change in the biology of the beetle. Its capacity to adapt to changing circumstances has actu