The Soil Conservation Council of Canada has on the books a resolution stating that we would be happy to work from a 1990 baseline. The issue of recognizing what pioneers have done, especially in the area of no-till, would reward their actions and also further complement bringing new people on to the system.
With regard to the Alberta system in the aggregate, the Alberta system started mid-2007, roughly July 2007. By the end of 2008 there were 500 million tonnes of offsets created in the province of Alberta. Some 1.5 million of those came from no-till alone.
Using, then, the low price of $6 a tonne for that—and of course these are sealed contracts, so it's rumour, but anywhere from $6 to $15—six times 1.5 million is nine million, but ten is easier to remember. There's $10 million in farmers' pockets who definitely need that when we are also the ones who are facing the pressures of increased fuel cost, increased electricity, increased everything else, because those greenhouse gas emissions that impact those regulated industries will be passed on to this primary sector.
Therefore that offset that we're being recognized for helps offset that expense that we are feeling already in the precluding of other regulations.