Members of the commission have been selected for their experience and for their integrity. ... I know the group’s recommendations will be comprehensive and well-considered.

I'm damn well pissed off,

Alberta Environment is doing, and has been doing, everything possible to respond to protect the environment, ... We can always learn from these incidents how we can do better and that’s why I’ve established this commission to review our capability to respond to these types of situations and recommend how we can improve.

We are doing a complete investigation.

The citizens here have some justifiable concerns,

We recognize the fact that Project Green is an important initiative, but that being the case, we want to focus in on let's recognize that [carbon dioxide is] not a greenhouse gas and it's not toxic, ... But we are continuing to look at technological improvements, such as capturing and storing CO2 in a positive way.