It is something of a niggle but I would have liked to know how many individual  ice cores there were - I think the answer is 12 - how wide they were and how much the new facility and transfer cost. And finally who paid for that. One irony is that I think that at least part of the funding for the new facility came out of the Canada Foundation for Innovation - a federal agency helping to support the construction of new facilities. So the Harper government may have cut funding for this research with one hand, and supported it with another.