Thank you.
Ms. Pike, if I can ask you a couple of questions, being a Newfoundland and Labradorian, I, too, am pretty excited about the agreement announced last week between Emera and Nalcor Energy and the Newfoundland and Nova Scotia governments, which will, as you say, bring 98% renewable energy to Newfoundland and Labrador. I think there's a small number, maybe in the twenties, of remote, isolated diesel stations that will probably remain, but that's a remarkable achievement. And the 300-megawatt bunker sea-burning outfit in Seal Cove, which we've been criticizing for many years, will be taken out of the system as well, as well as some of the coal in New Brunswick.
This is an interprovincial project, perhaps eventually involving all four provinces using the electricity and making these agreements to make this project happen.
You indicated it may go ahead without federal support, because the drive is there for it, but this is a project of national significance. But do you support the federal government providing some assistance for that through the PPP program, or perhaps through a loan guarantee of some kind that would reduce the cost?
And can you comment on the energy security side of things with respect to what Newfoundland is doing by using some of its revenues from the offshore oil, the fossil fuel, to actually invest in renewable energy? Does that contribute to energy security, in your mind, and do you see that as a goal?