Environment committee  No. This is just for capital for the actual plants and for sustaining capital to maintain the operations at their levels. One of the things with oil sands is that they do not decline as you produce them. There is a flat production rate for about 40 years. The material is fairly

Environment committee  That's a very good question as well. The answer to that is no, we haven't really examined that directly. As you suggest, and as you point out, it is a question of the transmission. It is a fair distance. We haven't looked at it, as I said, directly. I think that is an area that p

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'd like to follow up on Mr. Allen's question concerning the size of the oil sands deposits and the reserves we've talked about. If you take a look at the 140,000 square kilometres they've got, the total reserve in place, as estimated by the Alberta Ene