Environment committee  The hydroelectricity generated through run-of-the-river types of facilities is certainly a sustainable and renewable source of energy, yes.

Environment committee  Sustainability involves taking care of our present needs without compromising the needs of future generations to take care of their own needs. Given that no jurisdiction on the planet has yet found a way to deal with nuclear waste on a permanent basis, I can't see how nuclear po

Environment committee  Biofuels are an exciting issue right now. We're seeing a lot about it in the media. There are two types of biofuels. There are lignocellulosic biofuels, which are taken, generally speaking, from the by-product of food crops or other crops that are non-food and grow extremely rapi

Environment committee  No.

Environment committee  Mr. Scarpaleggia, under various pieces of legislation, including CEPA, bilateral agreements are entered into by the federal government and the various provincial governments, for the provinces to aid in the reporting of the emission of items under the national pollutant release i

Environment committee  I'm scratching my head about that. Maybe it has something to do with the release of our report and model legislation in late 2006. However, I can't really say why the Liberals, the previous government, did not follow through on the commitments they made on the international stage

Environment committee  In many respects, the schedule will pay for itself, Mr. Warawa. The items in the schedule are items for which the act stipulates short-, medium-, or long-term targets. Short-term is within one to three years, medium-term is within five to ten years, and long-term is 25 years. So

Environment committee  Year after year, we'd been seeing the same Environment Commissioner reports that Glen talked about earlier. We'd seen the same critiques of the previous government and are seeing some of the same critiques of this government, around the dysfunctionality of the departmental SDS, s

Environment committee  It's a bill that has now been substantially amended from the model legislation in the report we released in late 2006. As for bringing it to the House, I don't want to take too much credit, but whenever I was asked to help, I helped.

Environment committee  Absolutely. Whenever I was asked for help, I tried to offer whatever assistance I could.

Environment committee  I think we'd have a situation where.... We don't have an energy policy in this country.

Environment committee  We would have looked at the tar sands, the oil sands, through the lens of a responsible energy policy, through the lens of sustainable development, with an assessment of the costs and benefits to Canadians today and future generations of Canadians.

Environment committee  I can't say. A good bit of political will would have been and always will be needed. If the will wasn't there to do the project, or if the will was there to do the project regardless, the project probably would have gone ahead anyway. This is not a panacea, but this bill will mak

Environment committee  Well, this is a legislative framework for sound environmental governance. It stipulates very little--with the exception of establishing a framework--and this paragraph 8(2)(b) is not an exhaustive list. It lists, by way of example, a suite of tools the government can avail itself

Environment committee  Here's the beauty of this act. This act simply says that in some instances the government will have to regulate in connection with targets. And regulation could mean economic instruments; it could mean a cap and trade system, or a price on pollution. I think a lot of us would agr