Natural Resources committee  I'll add briefly that as our companies get better experience, they basically offer the services and the knowledge to other countries that are also growing rapidly and also developing power. This match works best if the coal quality or the coal type in that country matches well wi

Natural Resources committee  The most costly part of this whole system we're talking to you about today is the capture of the CO2. Transporting the CO2 is conventional pipeline technology, and it's well established. Areas in the United States, for example, have been using CO2 pipeline technology for decades

Natural Resources committee  The project I referred to, Mr. Bagnell, is in Newfoundland. I believe it started in 2004. It has moved into its second phase, so I think the answer is yes. Our investment in clean coal research goes back two decades probably. The integration of renewables into the grid is more re

Natural Resources committee  We put a map in the very last slide of the deck, Mr. Bagnell. It's slide number 22. That indicates what we think are the best locations for CO2 capture and storage. The Toronto area is not included. There are two reasons for that. One is that the sedimentary section is very thin

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much. You are correct, the international partnerships deal with such things as nuclear energy storage and waste. The committee will be briefed on that issue in the coming days. I would prefer letting the experts answer that question.

Natural Resources committee  In my presentation, I spoke about our international ties with other countries, particularly China, India and South Africa. These are countries where economic activity and electricity consumption are growing rapidly. That is why we are very interested in sharing with them informat

Natural Resources committee  That's right. At the same time, Canadian businesses could tap into those foreign markets.

Natural Resources committee  One area of interest to our group is the integration of renewable energy sources into grid supply. In the province of Quebec, for example, wind energy has come on in large measure. It is used in combination with hydro. When the wind is blowing and the generation is there, you sav

Natural Resources committee  Could I add to your first question, sir? We're aware of six gasification projects operating at the moment across the world, none of which operate with Canadian coals and none of which have capture and storage with them. In terms of oxy-fuel, there's a German company called Vatt

Natural Resources committee  If I might, just before we go on, slide 15 in your deck is the schedule of what we call “retirement” or “replacement” of coal technology. So the utilities are facing this curve, in other words, and as this capacity comes off line, it will have to be replaced. So as John has said,

Natural Resources committee  Not necessarily as clean as it could be. We're telling the committee today about a couple of technologies, gasification and oxy-fuel, that have long-term potential. But there's been recent construction in Canada of an intermediate step along the technology pathway. It's called

Natural Resources committee  We don't have the figures here today.

Natural Resources committee  Yes, we could provide them to you.

Natural Resources committee  I think I'll leave the answer I had previously, sir, and that would be that we have to balance. We have balanced, and that's the amount of money we've decided to allocate. We had promised to provide you figures on the different proportion across the other areas. If the committe

Natural Resources committee  We call it the leverage, and it's typically between 3 and 3.5 to 1.