Mr. Chair, pipelines are currently the safest way to transport oil. Therefore, they are the safest and cheapest way to transport large quantities of oil over long distances, for instance.
Just to give you some statistics on spills, because you were asking about statistics, petroleum spills between 2000 and 2011 were about 3,715 barrels per year, which represents 0.00037, about four-millionths of the volume.
I can also give you an idea of numbers recently.
There were two incidents in 2009. In 2010, there were eight, and in 2011, there were four by September.