Maybe I'll have a go at answering that.
The federal government already is helping in some ways. One example would be through the National Research Council. We do a lot of work with them. We do work with the universities. We do work with our own research institutions. We do work with the Alberta Research Council on things like proper land reclamation techniques.
As an industry, we have a lot of effort under way to try to turn the wet landscapes into dry landscapes earlier than was possible in years gone by. We've made a lot of headway with that now by consolidating the fines in the water itself so that they sink to the bottom and we can reuse the water faster. Just to give you an example of that, at Syncrude we now consume two barrels of water—not five or six or seven or eight—to make a barrel of oil. That's down about 60% over the last five years.
We're obviously also recycling water. You probably heard that story yesterday, if Don Thompson talked to you. About 80% of our water is recycled. We recycle it about eighteen times in the process. So we're only really withdrawing make-up water for our processes, and that make-up water ends up reporting.... It's used for water cooling in our processes. In that process, it goes to atmosphere, or, if it ends up in the tailings, it gets evaporated—not all of it, but to a big extent—so it gets returned to the hydrological cycle.
Those efforts are really there to enable us to minimize the impact we have on the environment in that regard, and we're continuing to look for ways in which we can further enhance that. But I think the industry, through those associations that we already have, like those with the National Research Council and others, is able to handle that one.
We talked about CO2 sequestration earlier on. I think the industry would probably say that in order for that one to happen, there needs to be a kick-starting of help from probably both levels of government to make it work. The federal government could participate in it and take a leadership role in making it happen.