We finished our compliance test this past April 2006 and sent the results of the compliance test to the ministry at the end of June. The results are still with the environment minister in New Brunswick. I guess my predecessors at Bennett, if they didn't like the way government was doing things, would go sit on the doorstep of the minister and pound their fist and yell and scream. I'm not that kind of person. They had a change of government in New Brunswick. I'm letting the new minister, who also comes from the Belledune area, take time to assess the situation and then he'll make his pronouncement.
But I can tell you that we have done all the studies that would be required under environmental assessment. I can tell you that there are very few people opposed to this facility in New Brunswick. This past October I sat through 13 days of public hearings on the Belledune building permit for this facility. There were 13 days of public hearings that cost us over $250,000 and 10 people showed up. In Belledune, New Brunswick, and the four municipalities that form the Baie-des-Chaleurs, they have written a letter imploring the Premier of New Brunswick to get this facility working.
As you said, Mr. Lunney, there will always be people who are afraid. There will always be the naysayers. But by and large, when you sit through a 13-day hearing and only 10 people show up--not the mayor, not the MLA, not the city councillors, not the deputy mayor, only 10 rank and file citizens--and then you have the political leadership in the municipality imploring the premier to get this process moving, that's the state of where we are today in Belledune, New Brunswick.