Thank you, Mr. Chair. On behalf of Jean Côté, thank you very much for having Suncor here today to chat about the benefits of the oil and gas economy.
Energy touches every aspect of our lives. It heats our homes, fuels our transportation, and provides access to services within our communities and also outside of them. It creates the materials for the consumer goods, and gets them to us. It supports health and education programs and systems, and is a major contributor to our high standard of living. At Suncor we actually believe that we are able to develop energy responsibly and enjoy the benefits it provides for all Canadians.
Canada is in an enviable position when it comes to oil and gas. Our abundance of fossil fuels has positioned us as a global marketplace, providing a unique opportunity to develop the reserve base over the long term.
Suncor is Canada’s largest integrated energy company. We employ approximately 14,000 people all across Canada. In addition to that, we have about 10,000 to 15,000 contractors who work on a routine and regular basis on our sites. When we do a capital expansion we might have up to another 10,000 people on our sites. Individually you can tell we are a major employer across Canada.
We have two oil sands mines and a third mine has just been approved, called Fort Hills, which is a joint venture partnership with Total S.A. and Teck. We have two in situ oil sands operations. All of those are, of course, in northeastern Alberta, where the oil sands are. We have refineries in Edmonton, Sarnia, Montreal, and one in Commerce City, Colorado.
We have offshore operations off the coast of Newfoundland. We have reserves of natural gas in the Montney region in British Columbia. We don’t plan to develop those immediately, but we have them. We also have a renewable energy portfolio. We operate Canada’s largest ethanol facility in Sarnia, and we have six wind projects in operation, and two under development.
We have a major lubricants business. It's located in Mississauga. It sells 350 products in more than 70 countries around the world. We are the proud owner of about 1,500 Petro-Canada gas stations all across Canada.
From an investor perspective, approximately 85% of our ownership is North American, the vast majority of that in Canada, with the small remaining 15% across England, Europe, and globally.
I know you had the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers here recently, so I won't go into the rather large statistics that the industry generally provides—$783 billion in taxes and that type of thing—but we'll specifically speak to Suncor's contribution to that.
In 2013 alone, our net earnings were $4.3 billion spread across all of our businesses, thus all across Canada. One of the things we're proud of is that our spending is right across the country. In 2013 alone we spent $10.5 billion on goods and services, and while the majority of that would have been spent in Alberta where the oil sands are, it was significant all across the country, including $1 billion of spend in Ontario, $241 million in Quebec, and $220 million in British Columbia.
We have that spend with over 11,000 vendors that reach all the way into transportation, telecommunications, and the primary, secondary, and tertiary aspects of manufacturing. I thought I would site a couple of examples. In Quebec, the oil sands industry gets a delivery of 45 buses a year from Prevost, so we have a great arrangement of buses coming from Quebec. Suncor has a large fleet of jets and all of them are CRJs from Bombardier, also a Quebec company.
A company like Fastenal in Kitchener supplies all of our consumable and safety vending machines across our sites. We have a very interesting partnership on social prosperity with the University of Waterloo. A company like Jacobs Engineering Canada will do maintenance and engineering at several of our sites all across the country.
We will pay in 2014 according to our guidance—I want to be clear, this is guidance and forward looking so a number of things could influence that—somewhere between $1.7 billion and $2.3 billion in income taxes to governments, including of course the Government of Canada and provincial governments. These contributions, along with the income tax contributions of our suppliers, we think help enable a strong fabric in Canada, providing governments with the revenue that they use for social programs, health care, and education.
Further, our contributions for income tax at Suncor are not heavily dependent on bitumen prices because of our integrated business model. We play at every level in the value chain all the way from upstream to downstream and refined and final products. That integrated model is what allows us to insulate our bottom line from the volatile and somewhat vast price differentials between bitumen and world crude pricing, something that, if you've spent any time thinking about it, you will have heard the term “the bitumen bubble”, it's not something that we experience. We actually get 88% of world pricing for all of our product that we produce.
We know that operating means reaching out and working with other businesses and being part of the community and local suppliers and communities who are impacted by our energy development, for example, first nations groups. Since 1992 we have spent over $2 billion on goods and services with aboriginal businesses. Last year alone we spent $425 million. This includes fostering incubators in aboriginal communities. Community investment for us in aboriginal communities promotes diversity, and provides training for in-demand trades including female-focused programs like Women Building Futures.
As we continue to make major investments in non-profit organizations to support sustainable communities we currently support 1,300 charitable and non-profit organizations across Canada. In 2013 alone we invested $22 million in communities, including some very innovative approaches like the social prosperity that I spoke to, building community leaders, engaging citizens, and collaborating on our energy future.
I'll stop there since I think my seven minutes are up. Jean and I will l be more than happy to entertain any questions when the other speakers are finished.