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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
 
Meeting No. 9
 
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
 

The Standing Committee on Natural Resources met by videoconference at 9:05 a.m. this day, in Room 853, 131 Queen St., the Chair, Leon Benoit, presiding.

 

Members of the Committee present: Mike Allen, David Anderson, Leon Benoit, Paule Brunelle, Claude Guimond, Richard M. Harris, Hon. Geoff Regan, Devinder Shory and Alan Tonks.

 

Acting Members present: Alex Atamanenko for Nathan Cullen and Cheryl Gallant for Russ Hiebert.

 

In attendance: Library of Parliament: Jean-Luc Bourdages, Analyst.

 

Witnesses: Canadian Renewable Fuels Association: Jeff Passmore, Past President. Coopérative forestière Haut Plan Vert: Valérie Patoine, Forest engineer; Lise Dubé, Agronomist, Club de gestion des sols du Témiscouata et Ferti-conseil. Forest Products Association of Canada: Catherine Cobden, Vice-President, Economics and Regulatory Affairs. Canola Council of Canada: JoAnne Buth, President. Enerkem Inc.: Marie-Hélène Labrie, Vice-President, Government Affairs and Communications. Resource Efficient Agricultural Production (REAP) Canada: Roger Samson, Executive Director. As an individual: Daniel Sperling, Professor and Director, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis.

 
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2) and the motion adopted by the Committee on March 16, 2010, the Committee resumed its study of the Status of ecoENERGY Programs
 

Jeff Passmore, Valérie Patoine, Lise Dubé and Catherine Cobden made statements and answered questions.

 

At 10:07 a.m., the sitting was suspended.

At 10:12 a.m., the sitting resumed.

 

JoAnne Buth, Marie-Hélène Labrie, Roger Samson and, Daniel Sperling by videoconference from Davis, California, made statements and answered questions.

 

At 11:00 a.m., the Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.

 



Carol Chafe
Clerk of the Committee

 
 
2010/04/22 8:10 a.m.