Natural Resources committee I'm sorry. The question was...?
October 19th, 2006Committee meeting
Howard Brown
Natural Resources committee I'd be delighted to answer the hypothetical question. My advice to the Minister of Natural Resources would be that, constitutionally, it is not the responsibility of the federal government to determine at what pace the Province of Alberta should develop its oil sands resources.
October 19th, 2006Committee meeting
Howard Brown
Natural Resources committee On the water recycling, any proposal to develop an oil sands project would have to undergo an environmental assessment. There would then be terms and conditions as part of the licence. Typically, there would be a water-use licence issued along with that, so that the companies wou
October 19th, 2006Committee meeting
Howard Brown
Natural Resources committee Yes, and most of the development will be in situ.
October 19th, 2006Committee meeting
Howard Brown
Natural Resources committee There are two ways of dealing with the bitumen, the raw material, if you will. One is to mix it in small amounts with crude oil, and then you can put it into a refinery, but there's a limit of 5% or 10% of the total. You would add 5% bitumen and 95% crude oil and then proceed. T
October 19th, 2006Committee meeting
Howard Brown
Natural Resources committee Yes, to the very best of my knowledge.
October 19th, 2006Committee meeting
Howard Brown
Natural Resources committee In the interest of full disclosure, I should say I'm from Regina.
October 19th, 2006Committee meeting
Howard Brown
Natural Resources committee It was a grave disappointment to me when I saw that the draft deck showed only Alberta and did not treat Saskatchewan symmetrically. With respect, I don't know the answer to your question on what the percentage is. At a guess, I would say it's one percent of this area.
October 19th, 2006Committee meeting
Howard Brown
Natural Resources committee There actually is a dot there, but it's too small to really show up.
October 19th, 2006Committee meeting
Howard Brown
Natural Resources committee There's not been a new refinery built in Canada for I believe 20 years, and there's not been a new refinery built in the United States for 30 years. It has not been a very good business to be in. Nobody's got rich.... I had better be careful here. It's not been the greatest busin
October 19th, 2006Committee meeting
Howard Brown
Natural Resources committee The burning of a fuel, either natural gas, or in one project that's underway, a synthetic gas made from the residue....
October 19th, 2006Committee meeting
Howard Brown
Natural Resources committee A couple of comments, if I could. Large amounts of steam are needed for these underground, as opposed to the mining.... Well, mines need steam too. When you make steam, you can make electricity for nothing. One way in which people are looking to be more economically efficient bu
October 19th, 2006Committee meeting
Howard Brown
Natural Resources committee The answer, of course, is that output is increasing faster than emissions intensity is falling.
October 19th, 2006Committee meeting
Howard Brown
Natural Resources committee Perhaps I could make a couple of observations. I said at the start I wasn't going to talk about the Clean Air Act, but I am. First of all, the question on the pace of development is really a question for Alberta. Alberta is the owner of the resource and it's really up to Albert
October 19th, 2006Committee meeting
Howard Brown
Natural Resources committee A very significant portion of our spending on energy research and development would be for projects with an environmental dimension to them. I would have to go back to see if we could extract hard numbers on that, but reducing the environmental footprint is a very important dimen
October 19th, 2006Committee meeting
Howard Brown