Just to begin, and I'm sure my colleagues will want to answer as well, we have a very sophisticated water management system in our surface mines in the oil sands. To give you an example of that, at the Syncrude mine site our permit does not allow us to discharge water that has come in contact with the oil sands. You can imagine what that means in terms of a surface mine that's as large as that. It means that we've got to have water that comes in contact with the oil sands flowing in a certain direction and taken into a receiving pond and then captured and contained. Water that doesn't come in contact with the oil sands is allowed to flow into the water systems. So we have a very complex water management system to control all of that, and we do that all the time.
We're continually monitoring our tailings storage, our water storage facilities, probably as much as anything from a geotechnical point of view to make sure that we don't have any concerns around the containment itself. But in the course of doing that, we're also monitoring any seepage that we might have coming from those facilities. All of that is put into weirs and handled in that fashion.
In terms of the final landscape, at the end of the day we turn the land back to the Government of Alberta, but we have to have a reclamation certificate that says they are happy with the outcome of the work we have done. All of that has to be permitted, just as it is when you go to get a development permit to actually start mining. We're in the process right now at Syncrude of getting the first reclaimed land permit for that right on the south end of our facility, where you might have seen the bison statues. That whole area has been completed now, and we're applying to the Alberta government to get a reclamation permit for that, at which point it will revert back to the Crown and they will accept responsibility for it. It's a very rigorous process to do that. We've actually been trying to turn it back to the government now for a while. For some five years we've been in negotiations with them on it. It doesn't come lightly.