Every exploration well creates about 400 jobs in Newfoundland and Labrador. If a discovery is found, that is thousands of jobs through the capital development phase and thousands through the operations phase.
About 22,000 people in the province are directly and indirectly employed in the sector. That is projected to increase to over 50,000 jobs over the next decade. As somebody mentioned earlier, Bay du Nord was recently approved for environmental assessment. That has the potential for thousands of jobs.
One thing I will note about that project is that it is one of the lowest carbon-intensity projects in Canada—