As an industry, we already have a long history of collaborating. You can look at how, in the oil sands, for example, it's over 30 or 40 years of industry collaborating as we've gone on. You have really deep collaborative sharing, as in Canada's oil sands innovation, where there is a commitment that every technology associated with various things is openly shared across that group.
We have also learned inside of that, that when we move that data to the public, the solutions we get back to close our needs with respect to greenhouse gases, for example, are so much more powerful. We can go to pilot with 30% of the solutions coming back, where normally it's only 2%. Within three to six months of receiving a solution, when we are very clear with the public and put out that data, much better solutions come back.
That overrides the competitiveness, because in Canada, we don't compete with each other. We compete with other basins. At $20 a basin from Eagle Ford, for example, what do we need to produce in Canada at $20? We believe we can produce at $20 with a much smaller greenhouse gas footprint, because we are already within 5% of an average global barrel for just the oil sands alone, let alone the fact that we have average global barrels as well. If you look at that whole net footprint for Canadian oil and gas, it is already significantly low.
We've already learned that we do that very well collaboratively, so that's not new. What is new that's happening right now in Canada is that we have the formation of the five superclusters, for example. Each of those superclusters—I guarantee you, because I've been talking to all of them, because CRIN is a non-government-sponsored supercluster—is developing communication platforms and platforms in which to share data.
If all of them are done separately, you will end up with five separate and different communication platforms, and NRCan's clean technology communities platform is already being developed. We could put all of these on a national platform, because what happens when you have government-sponsored organizations, whether we like it or not, we know that at some point in the future, some of those superclusters are not going to exist. What's going to happen with all that data and that open sharing on those platforms when that happens?
Canada can take that leadership to create a sustainable innovation, data, and communications platform, and then that grows. Regardless of the government organizations and whether accelerators or superclusters are developed, we still have that long-lasting continuous database that Kathleen was talking about, because we all suffer from that. If we can add open datasets to it, then anyone can grow from that knowledge. That data is protected by the person who has already developed it. Those protections are in place. The ability to take that, share it, and build on knowledge, that's the lifeblood; that's what makes things grow. We can talk about having collaboration, but unless data moves, it's not real or substantive.