While the Mackenzie gas project did fail in the end—it didn't come to fruition—a lot of different factors played a role.
That being said, the Gwich'in gained a lot of capacity. When you look at the Inuvik wind project, for example, the Government of Northwest Territories put out two tenders to develop the feasibility work. The Neets'aii were in a position to bid on that work because of our past experience with that process. Part of that bidding process, the feasibility study, also included community engagement. We are now leading the way in that for the government, as opposed to it coming in from us. We learned some very valuable lessons there in how things should be done and could be done.
What we've learned through that process, though, is a saying: “If you've been to one indigenous community, you've been to one indigenous community, and that's it.” What it really comes down to is spending time, money and effort in those communities, to listen to the people, hear what they're saying and learn how to respond to them—fundamentally, what they want to see out of it.