Transport committee  Would you like me to answer a little bit on that?

Transport committee  I don't have a Canadian example, but I do have a U.S. example. Canexus moved some chlorine into a storage facility in Washington state for a period of time. Before we did that, we undertook extensive consultation, not only with the community—I think Mr. Watson was asking about it before—but also, we went through an extensive regulatory approval process, so we dealt with the U.S.

Transport committee  First of all, they're checking to make sure that we are doing what we say we do. We have, as I mentioned in my opening remarks, processes and policies and that kind of thing, and they're wanting to see documentation and evidence that we are doing exactly what we say we are doing.

Transport committee  Primarily because of the railway networking infrastructure. There is quite a large number of alternative routings available in the U.S., whereas in Canada the alternative routings are very minimal.

Transport committee  Certainly from our perspective.... We do have transload facilities, not only the oil transload facility I mentioned northeast of Edmonton, but we also have some hydrochloric acid transload facilities in Alberta. We do take into account their locations within the rural or urban areas.

Transport committee  There's quite a few, and I don't have that information handy.

Transport committee  Sure, there's quite a litany of them

Transport committee  As an example, our organization doesn't ship chlorine by any mode other than rail. We looked at it, and we've concluded that from a safety perspective trucking is far too risky. We limit ourselves to shipping chlorine by rail. I'm not sure I can really say much more than that.

Transport committee  My organization is responsible for creating the ERAPs for our products.

Transport committee  We don't ship crude oil.

Transport committee  We don't ship any distillates. Our customers ship those. We're just a transloading operator.

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  I'm not sure we're the experts on rail operations, but with every action, there's usually an equal and opposite reaction. If you slow down traffic in urban areas, there are opposite responses such as, I think one of the railway representatives mentioned the blocking of crossings for longer periods of time.

Transport committee  No. Our primary concern is more the comfort that we have that the product will arrive within a certain delivery parameter. If it's consistently arriving in that timeframe, faster transit times versus slower transit times aren't really the major issue.

Transport committee  Exactly right.