There are potentially four regulatory processes that we have to go through because it's an international transmission line. You have the state process in Minnesota. You also have the federal process in the United States. We have to go through the provincial environmental licensing process in Manitoba, and we also need to get a National Energy Board licence to build the line and to export the power. So you can imagine that there are four regulatory processes that have to be undertaken. Doing that is very expensive; it takes a long time, and a lot of the processes aren't consistent.
For example, in the United States we're required to have three rights-of-way, three potential paths for the transmission line. In Manitoba, we're allowed to apply for only one. The three lines don't necessarily join at one, so there are inconsistencies in the routing process on the international line. That's a complexity that takes a long time to work through.
I've been working on the Manitoba-Minnesota project since 2007; that's 10 years. The world changes in 10 years, and we need to have committed proponents who are willing to invest their time and money and bet their future on this project, so the commercial relationships have to be very strong and they need to be committed, not just for a few years but through all the changes that we can expect in these projects.