Good afternoon.
You talked to us about the importance of water use. The use of water on shale gas production sites has become a major environmental issue.
The city of Trois-Rivières, which is my constituency, had to treat water from shale gas generation at its water treatment plant. Now, the ministère de l'Environnement is giving a conflicting opinion, saying that it can no longer do this.
Has enough research been done to determine all the appropriate environmental measures that should be adopted? Are we not playing sorcerer's apprentice a little by trying to produce shale gas without really knowing all the ins and outs of producing it?