We have been very clear since we took government in October that the moratorium was not in place for the Province of New Brunswick. We felt, and we know and we have had time to explore and come up with.... We have good regulations in place now. Since taking over as government, we have phased in the EIA process, the environmental impact assessment process. There were a couple of wells that had been drilled by Apache in the Elgin area in New Brunswick. They've drilled the wells. They're finished, and they've taken all their criteria back to Calgary. They won't be drilling any wells for quite a while. Our other major one here, Southwestern Energy from Arkansas, is just in the preliminary stages.
That's why we went to Arkansas, to get the positives and negatives from that state. That's why we're going to Alberta and B.C., especially Horn River. They've been in operation there for quite a few years, so we want to go talk to the regulators there, the environmental people. Actually, when we went to Arkansas, we took a lady with us who was part of the Conservation Council of New Brunswick. She went to every meeting we went to with landowners, with regulators, and with environmental groups.
We feel we're in the early stages here right now, and as a minister and with my staff, we don't feel, working with the Department of Environment, that we have time to enforce our regulations more. In New Brunswick, that's the position we are in as of today.