Two geologists from a California company Geologica have spent two weeks in the territory conducting preliminary tests.
Principal geologist and GRC member Joe Ivonetti says they will send soil and gas samples they have collected away for testing and it will be up to six weeks before results are known.
We probably won't know definitively till we drill and that drilling is at least a year, a year and a half away. Typically these projects from start to finish are in the order of five to eight years.