Natural Resources committee  Of course there are limitations. There's a whole chain of logistics, of course. There's containment, which is of course the first priority. Then there is recuperation of your spilled oil and then that must be stored and transported. The logistical chain is quite large. Especially in the event of the BP Deepwater Horizon, as I mentioned, it's quite overwhelming.

Natural Resources committee  As I mentioned, the information was quite difficult to obtain from the gulf. The technologies that exist today have been improved through time. Basically, we want to recover the oil and not the water, for one. Secondly, introducing dispersants to oil spills is controversial, because in fact we're adding chemicals, for one.

Natural Resources committee  We've been discussing with the coast guard for--

Natural Resources committee  --what kind of cooperation we can actually send down to the gulf.

Natural Resources committee  We in the industry who are supplying BP and others in their response have the same question. And I think all of us know that probably we have access to the same information. It was very censored, especially in the beginning. We know the American government had requested, and then ordered, that more information be released.

Natural Resources committee  We have our business as usual, so we do have calls coming from our domestic customers, but not in relation to the situation in the gulf. When I mentioned earlier that we were contacted last week by BP, that was to supply them with the equipment that we manufacture and supply in our services.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, and good morning to everyone. I gather that I have the honour of being the first one to speak. My last stay in this city, our capital, dates back to when I was three years old. I believe I have seven minutes, so it's a bit difficult to cover the areas I'd like to today.