Thank you, Madam Speaker, colleagues. The sad part of all this is that the spill is only now being brought to the world's attention. This occurred some time ago but we're only learning of it now. We, in the north, are fortunate enough to have good planning that has gone into the major part of the oil industry: oil and gas exploration, oil and gas extraction and transportation. Good planning, good work and perhaps good luck have gone into it. We have not been faced with such a disaster yet.
But, as Murphy's law predicts, if anything can go wrong, it will. I am confident, however, that Esso, IPL and this government are prepared for such an inevitable event and they are coordinated enough to foresee any subsequent or secondary conditions which could compound what would be a minor accident into something much more major. Thank you, very much.