I'd be happy to comment, and Finn has things to say as well.
This is, as the cliché goes, a shovel-ready project. If we're looking to provide a stimulus to the economy, this is one that is ready to go, provided of course that the proper environmental safeguards are in place. Oil coming from Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, three provinces out west, finding tidal water here in Atlantic Canada would allow exports and would create a significant number of jobs, many of which are technical jobs.
It would also allow us to become less dependent on oil coming from foreign markets. In the eastern part of the country, we are still dependent on foreign oil, which means that wars in the Middle East and situations in Africa make the pricing more difficult and more undependable. There are a myriad of benefits for this region alone, not to mention the fact that western Canada, which at this point is hurting in the oil patch, would be able to find markets for its product.