What's strange to me is that all groups—the industry, Inuvialuit, and the federal government—have supported this, yet it was absent in the 2010 federal budget in terms of funding.
It seems strange to me and a bit incongruous that with such limited boom capacity and spill response capacity we've been issuing leases into the Arctic with no knowledge or any ability to actually clean up a spill such as happened in the BP Horizon.