Natural Resources committee  We have something like 12,000 gas wells in western Canada in all of our operations in the oil sands. We have a small army of folks who work on a day-to-day basis to make sure we're environmentally compliant in what we're doing. We're also working on trying to make sure the laws a

Natural Resources committee  No.

Natural Resources committee  It affects your economic viability, and it goes right into the economics when you decide what projects to invest in. Yes, sir.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. First and foremost, many of the communities where we have not only our oil sands but also our gas operations are aboriginal communities. They are communities that don't have a lot of industry right now. So the biggest immediate benefit is to provide those

Natural Resources committee  I'm sorry, the question again was what does...?

Natural Resources committee  I think, as Mr. Tertzakian said, generally when foreign investors come in they bring capital with them. A lot of the Canadian companies have the expertise right now to develop these, so the foreign companies are coming in trying to develop.... First of all, we've got a great asse

Natural Resources committee  Yes, I believe we do. I think we need more of everything. The basic education system we've got in Canada—all the way from grade school to the trade schools, the unions, the colleges—provides lots of opportunities for folks. We just need more of those. I will say, though, that

Natural Resources committee  Mr. Chair, in short, just about everything. To be specific, we're looking at how we, first of all, employ people who have our safety culture. That's the most important thing to us, to make sure we don't have a number of safety issues. We're training people on that. That goes all

Natural Resources committee  Mr. Chair, we're working with universities. We spend quite a bit of time working with the universities on various programs. We are talking to engineers, to geologists. We spend quite a bit of time working with a lot of the aboriginal communities to try to describe what our projec

Natural Resources committee  Yes, sir. I look for predictability. I look for sustainability. I look for whether the economy right there has a good regulatory regime, a good government regime and a stable government. What I'm saying is, if we're going to invest several billions of dollars, we'll invest it up

Natural Resources committee  I'll answer only from the in situ standpoint here. Right now I believe we're making great strides in this. Roughly 95% of the water we use is recycled water. We don't take any water from open sources and none from the Athabasca River. We're using non-potable water; effectively it

Natural Resources committee  All over the world we live within the regimes that are put into place. The government puts in the regulatory regime, the environmental regimes, the requirements. We evaluate those and then we develop the projects accordingly under those plans. So we will—

Natural Resources committee  We will provide information to it, we'll try to provide what we think is the right direction on some of those things that help with the developments, and then we will live under the existing laws, yes.

Natural Resources committee  I believe it would be helpful to have more outlets for the product we make here, yes.

Natural Resources committee  Yes.