Obviously the flooding of reservoirs did, if you count things like high mercury and the abolition of food for native people, but we don't want another case of that happening. The problems with the Athabasca fishery are that they haven't been properly investigated. We know from both the word of native fishermen and Environment Canada employees who worked in that area for 30 years that there has been an increase in tumours in the fish. We don't even know if those reflect increased levels of contaminants. We don't know if they're reflected in numbers because nobody has studied the numbers sufficiently well.
I'd say that what we should be getting right now is an enhanced level of investigation. We've had a handshake between provincial and federal ministers. I have not seen a document to support any agreement. Certainly there are no federal-provincial studies ongoing, although they were promised last July. I'm very uncomfortable with the expansion that's going on. These 600 square kilometres that you're referring to are the pits. In-Situ is going to take in a much bigger area. It shouldn't affect surface water quality. Nobody has looked to see whether it affects ground water quality, but they have looked to see that it's a big problem for habitat, for creatures like woodland caribou and the seven species of large predators in the area.