[Technical difficulty—Editor] to a positive future. Let me give you an example of some of the ways companies are working towards that.
Right now it's a difficult operating environment up in northern Alberta to reclaim the land. Much of it is essentially muskeg. It's very difficult or impossible to get a mechanical vehicle on the landscape for eight months of the year. If you go on it in the summer, you put these huge ruts in the landscape. If you go on it in the winter, it's difficult, for example, to plant trees.
Two projects come to mind.
One is something we call faster forests. We found that, actually, you can go on the landscape when the muskeg is frozen. You can get on there with mechanical machines, but there's no impact or very little impact on the landscape, and you can plant spruce trees. You will notice as a biologist that this may be odd, but as it turns out you have very high survivorship for trees planted in the dead of winter. Companies, again through a COSIA project, are figuring out how to accelerate reclamation.
The second thing we have is a new piece of technology that is a way of reclaiming linear disturbance, and by that I mean a road or seismic line. Essentially you have what amounts to a backhoe on a series of big floats. You can take that backhoe to help reclaim these linear disturbances. You can take it on the landscape in the middle of summer when historically that backhoe would quite literally sink into the muskeg. With these series of large floats and a series of implements, you can actually now plant in the summer as well.
This is the kind of thing whereby we think we can speed reclamation by hundreds of percentage points, and frankly, at the same time save costs.