Natural Resources committee  You have to remember we're pumping this fluid, frack fluids, and we can take some contaminants. We can take high salt content; we don't have to have pure water. So we have the facility set there now that can actually knock out a little bit of the hydrogen sulfide, clean up the water a bit for solids, and it's pumpable water for us.

Natural Resources committee  We do.

Natural Resources committee  It's a spectacular use, as opposed to the traditional way, where you put one well in a 360-acre lot, and then you go over 360 acres and drill another well, and you have a pad associated with each one of those wells at the drill location. On the way we work now on these pads in Horn River, you drill 16 wells off one location.

Natural Resources committee  I'll start with Saskatchewan. We operate the Midale Unit, which is a CO2 enhanced recovery injection unit. It's offset by the Weyburn Unit. All the people in that area are local people, local guys. We're part of that community. We've been in that community for a long time. We see ourselves as trying to be the most responsible we can be, because we live there.

Natural Resources committee  No, I'll defer that one.

Natural Resources committee  I don't think so. We've put a lot of money into technology. Being innovative gives you that competitive edge, trying to find out ways to do things differently that benefit not only your stakeholders but the people in the community and around you. We're always trying to improve what we do.

Natural Resources committee  We've already said we would tell you what's in it. It's not a problem for us. Again, the problem a lot of people have is that they don't want to give away their competitive advantage. We're just an operator. I can tell you what the chemicals are. Again, it's 99% water.

Natural Resources committee  Again, a lot of them are cleaning chemicals. A lot of them you'd see in local stuff that you use in your house. Again, it's 99% water. I don't know where you're going with that, because you're pumping it in the formation and you're producing it out of the formation.

Natural Resources committee  There is not a standard. Reservoirs are different. That's not the way it works.

Natural Resources committee  No, no, I didn't say that. I said that there is not a company standard. The way reservoirs work in general is that you pump a fluid in, and because of interstitial pressures in places where things cannot come back out, they stay in place. If you pump a job and you have no other water in the reservoir, you'll produce as much water out of that reservoir over a period of time as the reservoir will give up.

Natural Resources committee  You have to remember, with regard to the fracking fluids.... And I don't know why the gentleman brought up coal bed fracking, because it's quite a bit different from the fracking here. These are water fracks. We called them water fracks 20 years ago, and we still call them water fracks.

Natural Resources committee  That's correct.

Natural Resources committee  But if you're pumping saline, non-potable water, then it's a different situation.

Natural Resources committee  But there is a differentiation, though, because it's not drinkable water. It's not runoff water. It's not water that could be used in a household. It's basically an old ocean deposit that's getting produced, cleaned up, and used as frack fluid that you could never use otherwise.

Natural Resources committee  No, it's not always the same. This is an innovative way we've used to solve the problem.