Environment committee  I'm going to defer the question to Mr. Cline.

Environment committee  It's similar. The difference is that there is actually a board that sits in a hearing process. In British Columbia, the Oil and Gas Commission makes the decision as a regulator; the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board is a quasi-judicial board and process.

Environment committee  The board composition probably does not include them at this point in time.

Environment committee  No, there is not.

Environment committee  The board is appointed by the Government of Alberta. It includes professional experts who may have rolled up through the staff at the board, but it also includes former politicians in the municipal world as well. There is a cross-section in that sense.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  I'm going to pass this to Mr. Cline, but the Alberta government has said in its analysis that they have not seen a case in which that has occurred.

Environment committee  Yes, that's the case. To put it in perspective, the conventional natural gas in Alberta is about 100 trillion cubic feet; the coal-bed methane potential is about 600 trillion cubic feet. A vast resource on the conventional side is significantly exceeded by this resource as a pote

Environment committee  Thank you. The multi-stakeholder advisory committee, or MAC, was a group that was put together by the Government of Alberta that consisted of members of the public, members of industry, and members of the government itself. That was the composition of MAC.

Environment committee  There were probably about—and I'm guessing—20 to 25. There were also a number of people who came into and out of the process as issues came up, who have an interest in or an expertise in that kind of an issue.

Environment committee  We had been asked to be represented on the committee, and CAPP had, I believe, two or three.

Environment committee  If I may come to that in a moment, I've been corrected on something. CAPP had one member and CSUG, the Canadian Society for Unconventional Gas, had one member. We left the representation up to the Government of Alberta to make those determinations.

Environment committee  I was prepared to talk about coal-bed methane. I will do my best to answer the question. As we look at the requirements that are coming out, we're looking at ways to enhance the efficiency of our operations, to minimize the intensity of those emissions coming from our activity.

Environment committee  Sure. The Alberta Energy and Utilities Board is our primary regulator for the activity that is undertaken by our industry, and there are well-licensing requirements that we have to go through. One of the policy goals is to maximize the recovery of the resource. There are other

Environment committee  If I could ask Mr. Cline to add to that—