I want to tell you up front that the Kinder Morgan expansion together with the proposal by Enbridge do not have support from first nations, or I should say a significant portion of first nations communities, as well as non-first nations communities, and a lot of the public in British Columbia for the very reason that Mr. Rubin talked about: what's in it for B.C. except cleanup costs? The risks are seen to be tremendously high. The impacts are large from what we see, and judging from our own history, as I've said, we've been made all sorts of promises and those promises have not been kept, and we end up living with the aftermath of somebody else's development. Some of that is still real, and those should be addressed as well.
An example would be the energy related to the development of Alcan's Kenney Dam, the destruction of the waterways below the dam, the destruction of the waterways above the dam, and what it's done over the last 50 or 60 years to the communities and to the wild salmon stocks in the area, as well as to the white sturgeon in the Nechako River. That has to be rectified.
People continually say they have all these good things for us, and a lot of that never materializes. So, until we see a process in place where first nations say they can work with that within this framework, and we can find a resolution, but right now, I don't see much of that. Perhaps where I see some opportunity is with some of the communities that are engaged with LNG on the west coast in particular.
They still have to talk about the pipeline routes, and there are seven or nine proposed routes now. They are all going through first nations territories. How are first nations in those areas going to be engaged in the management of that corridor, supposing there will be three, four, or maybe up to nine pipeline routes, which I don't expect will happen?