I might jump in from British Columbia, if this is an opportune moment, and address the questions around the investment of $75 million and carbon neutrality.
The investment of $75 million is estimated to be generating approximately $12.5 million in energy savings annually and reducing greenhouse gas emissions within the public sector by about 36,000 tonnes annually. As I indicated to a previous member of the committee, we are in the process of quantifying those benefits more rigorously, and I would be pleased to report back to this committee when we've completed that review.
But at this stage, those are the estimated annual savings financially and in greenhouse gas emission reductions. I would also add parenthetically that the $75 million included money that was leveraged from private sector partners, such as FortisBC.
With respect to the question around carbon neutrality, the Province of B.C. established this objective some time ago. We achieved carbon neutrality for the 2010-11 fiscal years, and we are confident that we will achieve carbon neutrality again for the 2012 year. Costs to achieve this in the acquisition of carbon offsets have been approximately $19 million in each of those two years.