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Natural resource issues (Continued from front page) this takes off." Council also discussed briefly the problem, identified by Natural Resources Canada, of 280 open gas wells located in the territory. The majority of them are seeping gas, according to the study. The government wants them to be licensed. Councillor John Peters expressed concern over the situation, saying, "the last gas well we closed up, it took $20,000 to do it. We just can't deal with this financially, its impossible." An expert on gas wells from Calgary is coming to study the situation with the gas wells in the very near future.