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Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Let me add one quick word. In terms of volume, the availability of biomass as a renewable fuel is massively larger than all the others, such as wind or solar. Right now we're six times all the others combined, and we could probably double our capacity. In terms of renewable possi

February 27th, 2007Committee meeting

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Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Sure. Planting urban trees is like any other climate change measure. You get two types of benefits: you get the greenhouse gas reduction—in this case, very modest storage, because there are only so many trees you can fit in a city—but you get the co-benefits of green spaces, eros

February 27th, 2007Committee meeting

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Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Tree Canada is great. We should all support it, from both sides.

February 27th, 2007Committee meeting

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Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  As concerns manufacturing, let me start. The advantage to respecting Kyoto as an international agreement is that it sends a signal of earnestness and good faith to the rest of the world. If the rest of the world doesn't reduce their emissions, there's no point in reducing ours.

February 27th, 2007Committee meeting

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Natural Resources committee  Thank you. I can't help but remark that it's quite charming to see so many carnations. Not since my high school prom have I seen so many people dressed like this. When I came in, I thought no one told me about the dance and you guys had all rushed in from some prom to do this.

May 9th, 2007Committee meeting

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Natural Resources committee  The first thing that would help the law would be to take.... I'll explain what it costs. To replace a boiler costs between $30 million and $80 million. In an industry that is suffering the economic hardship our industry is suffering, getting that kind of cash is very difficult. S

May 9th, 2007Committee meeting

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Natural Resources committee  If I can just jump in this for one second, what we have to do is go from stale hydrocarbons, which are fossil fuels, to fresh hydrocarbons, which is biomass. Any sort of national energy policy that would integrate the role of biomass and other renewables with the sustained role o

May 9th, 2007Committee meeting

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Natural Resources committee  And we are looking at a broader market for the biofuels. That being said, we wouldn't like to reach the point they have in Europe in which the subsidies make it more profitable to burn the wood than to turn it into paper and wood products. It's not good for jobs because there's a

May 9th, 2007Committee meeting

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Natural Resources committee  I won't comment on that, because it's outside the range of what we lumberjacks are expert in, but probably a better thing would be to have cars that run on wood. You could stop by the side of the road, pick up some logs, and just pop them in.

May 9th, 2007Committee meeting

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Natural Resources committee  No, I'm serious.

May 9th, 2007Committee meeting

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Natural Resources committee  I'm not certain that I understood your question fully, but we can certainly provide you with a document. Sixty per cent of our energy is derived from biomass, which is completely renewable. We have achieved a conversion rate of 60%.

May 9th, 2007Committee meeting

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Natural Resources committee  We have hundreds across the country. We are planning conversions for other facilities. The thing that slows it down right now is we're in economic trouble and we can't get the capital. Otherwise, we'd go all the way with all of them.

May 9th, 2007Committee meeting

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Natural Resources committee  Certainly I can answer that. When talking about these graphs, to a large extent they're choices. They're predictions based on choices. If we choose biomass, we'll get there faster. Frankly, right now biomass is six times wind, solar, thermal, and all of that combined. I know w

May 9th, 2007Committee meeting

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Natural Resources committee  Well, it's interesting: the success of our environmental consciousness means that what used to be garbage is now competed for. So sawdust, bark, and stuff that used to go to landfill--now the people who want to make plywood, the people who want to burn it, and the people who want

May 9th, 2007Committee meeting

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Finance committee  Thank you. I'd like to thank parliamentarians for holding these hearings. I know you hear many witnesses, and it might even get boring sometimes, but I just want you to know that we really care about this stuff and really appreciate it when you actually give us your attention. I

November 22nd, 2007Committee meeting

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