Talbot.Duluth Public Comment Meeting 2004

Duluth Public Comment Meeting 1 of 2610/05/04MODERATOR: Duluth Public Meeting, October 5, 2004.(tape shuts off)MALE: The general questions of clarification that anybody had? Cindy?CINDY: I'm just curious what Canada thinks of all this and what, what (notunderstandable).MALE: By Canada do you mean their federal government Canada or the provincialor…?CINDY: Well I don't want to get too (not understandable).MALE: Well we've been working closely with Ontario and Quebec in the developmentof these agreements. And they understand you know that they can't be part of a bindingagreement with the states because that's a treaty so that's why we have the two processesbasically. The non-binding agreement with, with the provinces and then we're doing a compactwith the states. So they've understand, understood that and they've been active participantsthrough the entire process. And you know the comments, I was at the Toronto meeting here acouple of weeks ago, ah and there were significant comments, ah made there, ah, and theinterests were similar to what we heard in Chicago and if what Jim had up on the screen. Is thereenough conservation and industry might think there's you know, I mean there's a wide variety ofum, ah, so there ah fully on board. They certainly, I mean they have a different form ofgovernment than we do but at this point they are being full partners with ah, with the states. Arethere questions or concerns? Yes, sir.MALE: Could you ...