If the question was as simple as that, it wouldn’t be that hard to agree. There’s more to it than that and the Member knows that.
We can put the pellets in, but until people start purchasing and have the money to actually put in their own pellet heating systems – which we all know a pellet boiler in a house is probably $20,000 even with the subsidies that are available through organizations like Arctic Energy Alliance – many people in the small communities aren’t going to be able to afford those anyway. We need to work with the communities to help them create a market. When the demand is there, we would absolutely be interested in putting those facilities to provide pellets.
With no market and a strong demand for diesel and gasoline, we have to provide what the people need to heat their homes to be safe, to be warm, to use their snowmobiles to go hunting, to get out on the land, to transport themselves around the communities. There are demands for those products that we have to provide. Even with biomass we’re never going to be completely out of the business unless somebody in private enterprise decides to go into those communities and provide, because we’re still going to need aviation and automotive fuel.