That's a very fair comment. I'd take back one point, sir, that I'd initially think about, and that is the need for competitiveness to keep the industry viable. It would not make sense to do a cumulative effects assessment.
It would be efficient to do it on a well-by-well basis, but what we do support—be it through a land use planning exercise or some sort of an area cumulative effects assessment—is working with the government to understand the industry plans and looking at what those plans will have on a cumulative impact assessment.
One area that I'd like to bring forward is the work that we're doing up in the Horn River shale basin, where we're looking at a five- to ten-year development plan and working with the provincial government on how those plans could be integrated with concerns around species at risk. The cumulative effects of those plans can be integrated into mitigating those effects on species at risk, including the caribou in the area.
That's a very effective way of not burdening individual projects but still getting to the need to assess cumulative effects assessments.