Yes. Thank you for that opportunity.
The issue of air is getting most of the airtime these days, pardon the pun. We're spending a lot of money to reduce sulphur dioxide emissions, nickel emissions, and CEPA-toxic metals. With less contaminants going into the air environment, that creates the opportunity for us to do a lot of work on soil and water in the Sudbury basin.
We are really quite busy, and have been for many years, regreening Sudbury. It's a national story that we wear with pride.
For those of you who have had the opportunity to visit recently.... Compared to what it looked like when I grew up there in the 1970s, it used to be what they called a moonscape—barren rock. Our open roast yards and our smelting processes would emit contaminants into the air that virtually decimated everything in their path.
We've embarked on a very aggressive program of aerial seeding, community regreening, biodiversity action plans, and have spent countless millions of dollars doing that. It's something we're very proud of.
As I said, because of our air emissions reductions the lakes have come back to life. This calendar year, we've raised fish in our greenhouses. We raise something like 250,000 seedlings each year, to plant them in areas where we once left a negative legacy.
This was our first year for raising fish. So we pull up ore and we raise fish, and have restocked a local river in the area with some 200,000 fingerling trout. We're going to be moving that aquarium underground next year, and it's something we're very excited about.
We continue to work at it piece by piece, with the overall mantra of leaving a net positive legacy in the communities in which we operate.