I agree that environmental impact assessments, which have become more and more a hallmark of environmental laws in many countries of the world in the last 30 years, are extremely important. They are important for informing decision-makers early on as to what the environmental stakes are, leading towards the most environmentally sound decisions.
The way these agreements work out is that each country commits to having high levels of protection and to doing these kinds of assessments. Again, my concern is that these provisions are only as sound as the mechanisms that are in place to enforce them.
If there are problems with how something like an environmental assessment process is working in Colombia, for example, that they're really not doing a good job, I just don't find the kinds of provisions I'm seeing in these more recent agreements would really ensure that they are going to be enforceable.
We know you can put those kinds of provisions in there, meaningful provisions that are going to provide meaningful remedies, because we see that with the investor dispute resolution process. It is possible to put in more meaningful, independent....
It's really a question of accountability. How accountable are these countries going to be to their environmental assessment processes?