Presented by Derek Townson, VP Western Region

Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Develop and ClimatePIC Meeting - Stakeholder Issues

October 30, 2008 – Vancouver, BC

Canada’s Cement Industry’s Experience With the APP Cement Task Force

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Canada’s Cement Industry

• CIMENT QUEBEC INC.Head Office and Plant: St. Basile

(Portneuf), QC

• ESSROC ITALCEMENTI GROUPHead Office: Mississauga, ON Plant: Picton, ON

• FEDERAL WHITE CEMENT LTD.Head Office and Plant: Woodstock, ON [White Cement Producer]

• GLACIER NORTHWEST CANADIAN LTD.

Head Office: New Westminster, BC[Non-Producing Member]

• LAFARGE NORTH AMERICA INC.Head Office: Calgary AB, Detroit,

MI Plants: Richmond, BC; Kamloops,

BC;Exshaw, AB; Bath, ON; Woodstock,

ON; St. Constant, QC; Brookfield, NS

• LEHIGH - HANSON CANADA LIMITED

Head Office: Richmond, BCPlant: Delta, BC; and Edmonton,

AB

• ST. LAWRENCE CEMENT INC.Head Office: Concord, ONPlants: Mississauga, ON; Joliette,

QC

• ST. MARYS CEMENT COMPANYHead Office: Toronto ONPlants: St. Marys, ON;

Bowmanville, ON

The Cement Association of Canada (CAC) is the voice of Canada’s cement industry. Its membership comprises eight companies with clinker and cement manufacturing facilities, granulating and grinding facilities, and distribution terminals from Atlantic Canada to the Pacific coast.CAC Member companies operate 17 cement plants in 5 provinces :

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Canada’s Membership in APP• Canada’s cement industry is fully supportive of the Government of

Canada’s membership in the Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate.

• APP is a good vehicle for government and industry to work together towards developing technology and common solutions on climate change and clean development that can be shared among the seven countries

• Cement industry is pleased that Canada has been chosen as the co-chair to the Cement Task Force

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Canadian Representatives• Official Delegates – Industry Representatives:

– Craig Campbell, VP Environment and Government Affairs (Lafarge)– Michael McSweeney, VP Industry Affairs (Cement Association of Canada)

• Official Delegates – Government Representatives:– Franck Portalupi, Manager, Canadian Secretariat of the Asia-Pacific

Partnership (Environment Canada)– Peter Campbell, Commerce Officer, Resource Manufacturing and Value-added

Products Directorate, (Industry Canada)

• Members of the Canadian CTF Domestic Working Group– Craig Campbell (Lafarge)– Martin Vroegh (St. Marys Cement)– Luc Robitaille (St. Lawrence Cement)– Michael McSweeney (CAC)– Azin Moradhassel (CAC)– Peter Campbell (Industry Canada)– Tony Kosteltz (Environment Canada) – Co-Chair of the CTF– Michel Despot (EcoSmart)

Domestic Working Group• The Canadian CTF Domestic Working Group was established

following Canada joining the APP– Informal– Collaborative

• The Working Group has been meeting regularly since this time, primarily in advance of CTF meetings to prepare for the official meetings

• CAC is working closely with the government officials to help them better understand their understanding of the cement industry, as well as the many potential opportunities the cement sector can provide to governments to assist in further good cooperation between the government and industry:

– Plant tours– Industry updates and briefings– Two way communication

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Canadian Progress in ‘Catching Up’• The Canadian cement industry is accelerating its efforts to deliver

value added to the current portfolio of CTF projects underway: – Project 1 (Status Report) – complete and submitted– Project 2 (Benchmarking) – being finalized, to be submitted in advance of CTF-

7– Project 3 (Legislative & Regulatory Analysis) – Tabled analysis conducted by

CAC on border adjustments

• The Canadian cement industry has put forward two project proposals for consideration of government funding that both fall under the current CTF projects and proposes a new umbrella project:

– LCA Concrete Highways, working closely with the PCA and building on their literature review so that the CAC can have a predictive model designed

• (Project 4- Life Cycle Evaluation of Concrete Building Construction as a Strategy for Sustainable Cities)

– Supplementary Cementing Materials Optimization System – software tool for use by governments, architects, specifiers and others in the construction industry to assist them with a tool that will help them better understand the amount of SCMs that could be incorporated into a project

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Canadian Recommendations• Allowing more time for break out sessions so that strategic

discussions can take place among taskforce members, in addition to project updates

• Establishing a process to create linkages between APP task forces

– Ex. Cement Task Force – Buildings and Appliances Task Force– Ex. Cement Task Force – (Proposed) Road and Transport Task Force

• Encouraging linkages with other international organizations– Ex. Cement Task Force – WBCSD Cement Sustainability Initiative

• Encouraging linkages of efforts of task forces to domestic regulatory requirements

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Q&As

Thank you

Derek Townson

dtownson@cement.ca