Natural Resources committee  It's a bit more complicated than that. We'll be able to take 400 tonnes of manure, plus 40 to 70 tonnes of some other products. We've identified municipal solid waste as something we want to take into that particular facility. The amount of gas we're able to produce is almost five-plus times as much as we're currently able to produce.

Natural Resources committee  For small power producers, the right of access to the grid is important. In Alberta, if you get a permit to produce, you must be connected. There will always be an argument about who pays for how much of that connection cost, and that's fine, but you have the right of access to the grid.

Natural Resources committee  Right. In Alberta, the production of electricity and the retailing of electricity is almost completely deregulated, but the distribution of electricity and the transmission of electricity is still a monopoly. Unfortunately, if you want to sell electricity, you have to go through the distribution of electricity.

Natural Resources committee  Well, I wish. We are still struggling with it very much, and not just with the idea of waste. We've come to the point where we can educate investors and we can educate consumers by saying there's no such thing as waste, really. They're really just resources that either have a negative value or a positive value because there's a market driving them in either direction.

Natural Resources committee  Since I don't have too much to add to that, I will address the feed-in tariff directly. Feed-in tariffs are fantastic if applied properly. The lesson that I always look at is Germany in the anaerobic digestion market. They put in a feed-in tariff at a very high price, 22 euro-cents to 27 euro-cents per kilowatt-hour.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much. It's a real pleasure and a real honour to be invited to come and tell our story to this committee. We were asked to share with you a little bit of the history. It's a bit of a story that spans a decade, and you may imagine that over a decade we accrue enough policy recommendations to fill up a book, so we'll try to keep those near the end and focus on the story.