Environment committee  If you look at what our current outlook is, we have no plans for any seismic or drilling activities that are underneath or around Sable Island. The key is that we don't know what might happen in the future. There is a resource under the island. At the moment developing that resou

Environment committee  Underneath the island is a gas resource. Whether the quality of that resource requires fracking technology has not been contemplated in the plans. I'd say it's too early to talk about or to understand what development techniques would be required for that resource.

Environment committee  When you say “in its entirety”, and you think about the resource and the gas field that is underneath the island, to be able to access that gas field you essentially need to drill into the appropriate location that might be under the island. Now, the exact location of that is unk

Environment committee  It's two or so kilometres below the surface of Sable Island, so it's very deep.

Environment committee  There's no activity happening close to the surface of the island. We can confidently say there won't be any impact on the surface of the island as we drill two kilometres to five kilometres underneath the island.

Environment committee  Yes, I think as you look back at the activities we have had there, the Sable project is a shining example of the cooperation and ability to produce oil and gas effectively in close proximity to the island. We've been doing that for many years very successfully. The issue we have

Environment committee  If you remove the opportunity to drill underneath the island, you remove the opportunity to develop that resource.

Environment committee  We're supportive of that.

Environment committee  At the moment the closest facility to Sable Island that we have is about nine kilometres off the coast. That's our Venture pipeline.

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