Absolutely, Mr. Chairman.
First, Ms. Brunelle, you're correct that there is a process now, the BAP process, which is ongoing. As a matter of fact, Talisman specifically has been very engaged in that process over the last month or so, and we understand it won't conclude until early February. Some of the issues you've brought up are being discussed in that format.
Specifically on water, everything we do is tightly regulated by the ministries of natural resources and environment in Quebec. So everything we do requires a permit. For example, we used surface water to fracture stimulate that well. We had permits to extract the amount of water we did. Conversely, we have permits from the MDDEP to take that water to a municipal treatment plant for disposal.
In the long term and on a large scale, if we hope to develop that resource, that is not what we would do with our water. There are two reasons for that. First, we try to reuse as much of that water as we can. In the example you cite, we will use that water again the next time we fracture stimulate a well, which won't be until next year. So we are keeping it, as you correctly cited, in an above-ground containment so that none of the water hits the ground. Our intent is to use that water the next time we fracture a well next spring. So reuse is a big part of our strategy.
The sewage treatment plants are not the solution for long-term treatment of water in Quebec. In other jurisdictions where there aren't very robust shale businesses, that isn't what happens. There are other technologies that exist today, such as reverse osmosis and evaporation, where this water is treated at scale. There have been two wells fracture stimulated in Quebec this year, so we are not at the scale yet to use those longer-term solutions. That's why we've used the sewage treatment plant.
But I'd like to be clear that everything we do is regulated by the MDDEP. We have permits from the MDDEP when we take that water to the disposal site. The sewage treatment plant also has to approve the treating of that water in their facility. So nothing that we've done is outside of current regulations. We really support a robust regulatory environment in Quebec, as well as any place else we operate.