To answer your last question first, no, there isn't. But I'll step back a bit. The issue of leaching from the tailings ponds is definitely a big one, so I'm not discounting that. We took industry's own data, their estimates of how much is leaking out each day, to compile it, and it amounts to 11 million litres each day. That's based on industry's estimates. So that's a large concern.
As for the possibility for a breach, the volume of liquid that's held back by the dams in the tar sands tailings ponds is much greater than what we saw in Hungary. Right now, almost a billion cubic metres of toxic waste is being stored on the landscape in various ponds.
So I can't say what volume would get released, but some of these ponds are 300 feet deep, so it's a very large volume of liquid. Because we've seen similar types of dam structures fail in other parts of the world, we can't discount that this will never happen here. It would be foolish to.
The federal government has no emergency response plan. The Alberta government has no emergency response plan. It's downloaded to industry. They do not release those emergency response plans because they claim it's proprietary. So the public, the federal government, has no way to assess how prepared those individual companies are. That's the concern. The federal government has a clear role because of the potential for trans-boundary impacts and the Fisheries Act impacts.