No. Once you separate the bitumen from the sand and it goes into the oil separation process and the hydrocarbon-cracking process to create some form of oil--and it may be heating oil, it may be the sweet crude that ultimately gets further treated for gasoline production and home heating oil, etc. All those products are considered to be part of the traditional oil and gas industry, right from what they call the cracking process. These companies would be members of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, as well as the Mining Association of Canada, and they work with us because they have similar challenges that the rest of the mining industry has in terms of managing energy efficient processes and the extraction of materials, managing the reclamation process, and recovery of land at the end of the day, etc. They get benefit and we get benefit from their expertise in this process, but they straddle both.
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