"Are there risks and impacts? Of course there are. Are the risks and impacts anything like what you have seen reported in the media in Quebec? Of course not. If they were, why do the vast majority of farmers in Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia still welcome us on their land? We have to be responsible - and we are - because our business depends on the goodwill and trust of rural people."

"Even though there are no plans to commence exploitation, professional opponents ask for a moratorium any way. They know that until we have a plan we will not have social acceptability. They know that until we have more technical data we cannot have a plan. It is clear they want a moratorium so that we can never create a plan and never gain social acceptability."