However, 30 percent of the companies has been to convince people to allow the companies to place sour gas wells on their property and process the gas near where they live. People in parts of Canada have accepted the risk from gas companies and allowed them to extract and process the potentially dangerous sour gas near where they live, work, and play. It was a long and difficult process that included extensive meeting between the gas industry, government, communities, and other constituents. Eventually, a committee composed of the various constituents developed a plan that was acceptable to all involved. The extraction and processing of dour gas in Western Canada was a triumph of risk communication.