Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you to all of you for being here.
Mr. Bowden, I'm impressed with your common sense approach: make good choices. You talk about turning off the faucet, and if you can't turn off the faucet, you go to the main. In the case of the Gulf, the main is the natural geological fissure through which the oil is going, and they can't stop it. So there's no main to turn off, except by asking Mother Nature to cooperate. It ain't happening. It's dramatically pointing out that we have to look at our legislation.
My question out of that is probably to Mr. Corey. Mr. Corey, you indicated on your slide that the National Energy Board is conducting a comprehensive review and in the meantime has cancelled its written hearing on the same-season relief well capability. When did the National Energy Board become aware that a relief well would be a very real alternative—and not just a same-season relief well, but in lieu of what's happening, perhaps a regime change that would require, in deep-sea conditions, a relief well at the same time as the main bore would be undertaken? When did the board embark on that kind of question?