Thank you for that. That's an excellent question.
I have a few points. I think one thing not to underestimate is the extent to which, as you well know, the market context for energy has changed so fundamentally with the shale revolution and the development of oil and gas in really unprecedented quantities in terms of production in the United States and the impact that's having on energy infrastructure and the reorientation of energy flows.
To your point, one of the things that we're seeing now is.... Again, as I said before, you'd have to go back to the 1950s to see this many pipeline proposals. The system has not had this kind of large-scale project proposals in front of it for that length of time. I think it's important to recognize, to the point about communities, that for many of these communities it's important to look at communities in context. It's not a surprise that in Alberta when your neighbour works in the sector, maybe you work in the sector and that you know it inside out. You have confidence. You're familiar. Your level of familiarity is really quite substantial.
If you look at other communities, whether it's in terms of the pipeline routing, or in terms of—think about energy development in other jurisdictions—shale in New Brunswick, shale in Quebec, these are jurisdictions and communities that don't necessarily have a previous history with hydrocarbon development. At the individual community level looking at values—