Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to welcome the students and wish them a fruitful day. I hope the information that they collect this morning will be of interest.
My question is for Mr. Pryce, followed by Ms. Ernst.
The numbers I hear are 8 million to 16 million wells using groundwater or taking gas out. I'd like a little bit of comment on that, because it seems that you've got a lot of wells out there. What is there to regulate or monitor the cumulative effects of mining this gas, the coal-bed methane, out of the earth? What I'm seeing is a lot of separate holes being drilled, with no large, overseeing body. Is there an oversight body out there, and what kinds of reports are we getting from the body? First Mr. Pryce and then Ms. Ernst.