It's an area where there is a lot of investment by private industry, which looks to increasing the supply and being efficient about how resources are used. Industry will tend to concentrate on production. It's in their best interests to do so. Federal investments are often in minimizing the environmental footprint. It's part of the social licence to operate and affects our ability to export, so a lot of the focus has been on the environment or on the offshore and the Arctic. That's more on the geology side, meaning understanding the nature and scope of the resource before exploration takes place.
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