Those are lots of questions in one question.
It's certainly a concern for me. I started my career in salmon farming. I came from a community development background and was working with North Island College as the director of training and community development. I got involved with the Kitasoo/Xai'xais First Nation and their protocol agreement with Marine Harvest Canada, where we were providing training in that remote community of Klemtu.
In Klemtu, I started to visualize what closed containment would look like in a community that size, where you don't have access to power. You have diesel power there to run your electricity. They have a small hydro station, but power supply is a big issue. They don't have a large, flat land base; it's quite mountainous. Swindle Island is quite mountainous and very treed, so it would be very difficult to build a large facility there, and you'd be running into extreme difficulties with your energy use.
When you think about Klemtu, they've gone from an 85% unemployment rate to one person in every family working in the industry. They run their own processing facility there. It's revitalized that entire community. Think about the capital cost to put a closed facility into that location. I think the very hard answer would be that the companies would need to offset that increased capital cost, even if you could find the land there, which you can't. You would move closer to market. You would have to offset that cost somehow, and that would be by reducing your transportation costs, for example.
It creates a number of challenges. We do see that there are opportunities with the technology, as Rob has described, and his technology is not what we would consider a true closed containment system because the facilities do have some exchange of seawater in and out, but I'm not going to speak to his facility. We look at a closed system as a completely closed system.
To be able to transition the industry to that, the large companies in British Columbia would simply move their investment elsewhere. That would be the reality of that kind of a situation.