Environment committee  I would say not that I'm aware of.

Environment committee  I'll let you answer in a minute, but I guess when a company first is trying to decide the merits of the project, they will probably want to drill one or two wells to understand the nature of the resource there. So in some respects it's a bit evolutionary. There are challenges to

Environment committee  I guess the point I would make is the company doesn't know that at the outset. As it learns that, then it does get into that kind of consultative process.

Environment committee  I guess Mr. Cline commented before that we do not see that number of wells going forward. I'm not familiar with Mr. McCrank's statement. It may have been a multiplier on the number of actual operating wells, not the number of wells that are drilled. But I'm speculating on that wi

Environment committee  Could we comment on the benzene piece? Would that be acceptable?

Environment committee  I'm assuming this is still the noise question.

Environment committee  The Energy and Utilities Board does some of that and Alberta Environment does some of that.

Environment committee  They assess the merits of the project.

Environment committee  The mandate of the Energy and Utilities Board is to look at the merits of the project from an economical, technical, and environmental perspective. They have that mandate in their interest of looking at the interests of Albertans as a whole.

Environment committee  I'll ask my colleague to speak to that.

Environment committee  Mr. Chairman, could we respond to the noise piece?

Environment committee  I think it would be useful to understand the noise rules in Alberta. The noise rules in Alberta are governed by something called “Directive 040”, with which all oil and gas companies, in fact all utilities, need to comply. The directive states that your noise level, for the close

Environment committee  Absolutely.

Environment committee  I'll turn that question over to Mr. Cline in a moment. What I want to make sure people understand is that when we have these facilities out there, the companies are visiting these sites on a regular basis. The Alberta Energy and Utilities Board is visiting these sites on a regu

Environment committee  I'm going to ask Mr. Cline to answer that.