Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  At the contracted rate, which is 1.2 bcf a day, it would last approximately 25 years.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  For the last two or three years we've been working on restructuring the project to comply with some principles that Minister Prentice set forth two or three years ago. Generally, those principles were that it had to be in the public interest and it had to be properly approved by

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In part that's correct. There are other volumes down the valley. For example, Colville Lake has some reserves, and they're about 100 kilometres from the pipeline.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's correct.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and bonjour, mesdames et monsieurs. I appreciate the opportunity to appear before you this afternoon. The clerk has circulated a handout that I hope all of you have in your possession. I'm just going to go through t