We have the decisions of the National Energy Board to drill or not to drill, which will be based on the best scientific data possible.
The other advantage for Canadians is that we have learned a lot from this partnership with the economic world. Our group, ArcticNet, has learned a lot from our industrial partners in this region of the Beaufort Sea. New technologies have been brought to the partnership. There has been an influx of expertise about geophysics. It has strengthened our knowledge of this region tremendously, this tripartite collaboration. There are of course the universities, the industry itself, and the departments of the federal government. For example, in this case, all the aspects of geophysics that we studied in the Beaufort Sea with the industry have been done in collaboration with Natural Resources Canada, with the Geological Survey of Canada.
Another benefit is that by doing this in an integrated way that involves the private sector and academia and the other stakeholders, such as the Inuit, we can all talk about the same thing, and we can make sure that the local people, in this case the Inuit communities, get some benefits out of the potential development of this region.
So I think this this meshing of all the scientific interests from academia, from the departments, from the Inuit, from the private sector allows us to do something different in Canada, through ArcticNet. Several other countries are looking at what we're doing and the way we're doing it and they are paying attention. It has brought Canada to the leading pack of countries that are studying the changing Arctic.