Alain Belda: We started with $257 million. My guess is we are at about $200 million right now in terms of investments and working capital. Most of the equipment is bought, in the process of getting installed and we do not see that we need any more equipment than what we have there right now.
Charles McLane: Of all the projects that have been going on in Russia, 90% plus of them are going to be complete by mid-year.
Brian MacArthur (UBS): You were talking about $3 billion in capital this year. You said there was $1 billion in Brazil, which was growth, but then you said the other $2 billion, 75% of it is sustaining. Does that mean the sustaining capital was up at a $1.5 billion?
Charles McLane: There are things like red mud lights and some power scrubbers that need to be redone and environmental things, so all of those are flowing into it as well.
Brian MacArthur (UBS): Would $1.5 billion be your sustaining capital at a run rate going forward now?
Charles McLane:
It depends on how many power contracts that we get renegotiated, whether we do that or greenfield facilities, we are going to have some costs like that, yes.
Alain Belda: That also includes, for instance, we are rebuilding the Warrick Power Plant. That has been a $400 million project over two or three years. We are repowering our hydroelectric plants in the Tennessee area and the North Carolina plant. There is a lot of substantial investments in the U.S. which are not exactly what you see normally as current, run of the mill expenditures.
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