The question is, how do communities respond to the impact we have when we bring industry into their area? First off, we recognize that this is an impact on the everyday lives of the citizens in an area. So what we try to do, and have done many times, is visit with the communities and tell them exactly what is going to happen. This is an industrial process. We bring in, via heavy trucks, drilling rigs and other industrial equipment.
We sit down and have community town halls, and we address any concerns the citizens have. In some cases, we've had tours in which we show them what an actual drilling rig works like, taking some of the mystery out of the process.
The oil and gas business has been drilling wells in North America for 150 years. Yes, it is an industrial process, and yes, there are risks. But through that long history, we feel we have identified those risks and mitigated them with best practices. What we share with the communities is exactly what we do, why we do it, and how we do it.