First, I would like you to confirm the figures that I recently learned about. They deal with the flow of the Athabasca River and the water removals from it. According to documents I read, the river lost 20% of its flow between 1958 and 2003. I also read that, for all of the oil sands extraction projects, water removals from that river will need to be increased by 50%.
Could you confirm those figures? Are they accurate, to what percentage point?