NOTICE OF APPLICATION
APPLICATION NO.  1522286
TUSK ENERGY CORPORATION
GEORGE FIELD

Take Notice that the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board (EUB) has received Application No. 1522286. This notice is to advise of the filing of this application. Note that if no submissions are received on or before October 16, 2007 relating to the application, the EUB may continue to process this application without further notice.

Nature of the Application
Tusk Energy Corporation has applied pursuant to Section 80 of the Oil and Gas Conservation Act (the Act) for an order prescribing that all tracts within the drilling spacing unit comprising Section 7 of Township 82, Range 3, West of the 6th Meridian, be operated as a unit for the production of gas from the Bluesky and Gething formations, through the well with the unique identifier of 00/01-07-082-03W6/0. 

The applicant requested, among other things, that costs and revenues under the pooling order be allocated on a tract area basis, and that it be named the operator of the well to be produced.  The applicant has requested the equalization of the cost of drilling and re-completing the well in the formations named in the order.  The applicant did not request any penalty provisions for the order.

Additional Information
To obtain additional information or a copy of the application, contact:
Tusk Energy Corporation
1900, 700 – 4 Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta  T2P 3J4
Attention:  Brian Smart
Telephone: (403) 261-5261
Fax: (403) 263-4247

A copy of the application is available for viewing at the EUB’s Calgary office,
EUB Information Services
Main Floor, 640 – 5 Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta T2P 3G4
Telephone: (403) 297-8190

For information about EUB procedures, contact:
Applications Branch, Facilities Applications Group
Attention:  Karine Fisher
Telephone:  (403) 297-8490
Fax:  (403) 297-2474
E-mail:  karine.fisher@eub.ca

To File a Submission
If you have an interest in this application and you wish to file a submission, please state in writing your reasons for filing by no later than October 16, 2007.  Send one copy of your submission to the applicant at the name and address above and another copy to:
Nancy Bird, Applications Coordinator
Applications Branch, Facilities Applications Group
Alberta Energy and Utilities Board
640 – 5 Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta T2P 3G4

Notes
Any submission filed shall contain the following:

(a) a concise statement indicating
  
(i) the manner in which the intervener’s rights may be directly and adversely affected by a decision of the Board on the proceeding,

 (ii) the nature and scope of the intervener’s intended participation,

(iii) the disposition of the proceeding that the intervener advocates, if any,

(iv) the facts the intervener proposes to show in evidence,

(v) the reasons why the intervener believes the Board should decide in the manner that the intervener advocates, and

(vi) the intervener’s efforts, if any, to resolve issues associated with the proceeding directly with the applicant;

(b) the name, address in Alberta, telephone number, fax number and, if available, e-mail address of the intervener;

(c) if the intervener is represented by a representative, the name, address in Alberta, telephone number, fax number and, if available, e-mail address of the representative;

(d) if the intervener is an unincorporated organization, the nature of the intervener’s membership.
If you have an interest in this matter, you are required to make a submission with respect to this application even if you have previously filed a submission with the Board or with Tusk Energy Corporation on this application.

Submissions relating exclusively to compensation for land usage are not dealt with by the EUB but may be referred to the Alberta Surface Rights Board.

Note:  In accordance with Section 12 of the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board Rules of Practice, all documents filed in respect of this proceeding must be placed on the public record unless otherwise ordered by the Board.

All material relating to the proceeding is subject to Alberta’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy legislation.

Issued at Calgary, Alberta on September 25, 2007

ALBERTA ENERGY AND UTILITIES BOARD
Douglas A. Larder, Q.C., General Counsel