NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF HEARING
APPLICATIONS NO. 1486523 AND 1498999
APACHE CANADA LTD.
BASHAW FIELD
Take Notice that the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board (EUB) had scheduled a public hearing of Applications No. 1486523 and 1498999 at the Ponoka Legion, 3911 Highway 2A, Ponoka, Alberta, commencing on Monday, November 5, 2007, at the hour of 9:00 a.m. The Board received a request from interested parties to reschedule the hearing and it agreed to grant the request.
Therefore, Take Notice that the EUB will hold a public hearing of Applications No. 1486523 and 1498999 commencing on a date and at a location to be determined. A Notice of Rescheduling of Hearing will be issued by the Board in due course giving the details of the rescheduled hearing.
Nature of the Applications
Apache Canada Ltd. (Apache) has applied pursuant to Section 2.020 of the Oil and Gas Conservation Regulations for a licence to drill one vertical well from a surface location at Legal Subdivision (LSD) 9, Section 6, Township 43, Range 22, West of the 4th Meridian. No hydrogen sulphide (H2S) is expected to be encountered in the drilling of this well. The purpose of the well would be to obtain coalbed methane production from the Edmonton Group.
Apache has also applied pursuant to Part 4 of the Pipeline Act for approval to construct and operate a pipeline from the proposed well at LSD 9-6-43-22W4M to an existing pipeline tie-in at LSD 11-6-43-22W4M. The proposed pipeline would transport natural gas containing no H2S. It would be approximately 970 metres in length with a maximum outside diameter of 114.3 millimetres.
The proposed well and pipeline would be located approximately 25 kilometres east of Ponoka.
Additional Information
To obtain additional information or a copy of the applications, contact
Apache Canada Ltd.
100, 700 – 9 Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta T2P 3V4
Attention: David Calvert
Telephone: (403) 303-1826
Fax: (403) 261-1208
Copies of the applications are available for viewing at the EUB’s Calgary office and the EUB’s Red Deer Field Centre:
EUB Information Services
Main Floor, 640 – 5 Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta T2P 3G4
Telephone: (403) 297-8190
EUB Red Deer Field Centre
Millennium Centre
202, 4909 – 49 Street
Red Deer, Alberta T4N 1V1
Telephone: (403) 340-5454
For information about EUB procedures, contact
Applications Branch, Facilities Applications Group
Attention: Rachelle Reid
Telephone: (403) 355-4305
Fax: (403) 297-4117
E-mail: Rachelle.Reid@eub.ca
To File a Submission
The deadlines to file submissions to the hearing of Applications No. 1486523 and 1498999 were October 15 and 22, 2007.
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 has a representative, the name, address in Alberta, telephone number, fax number and, if available, e-mail address of the representative; and
(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 these applications even if you have previously filed a submission with the Board or with Apache on these applications.
If there are no submissions received, this hearing may be cancelled and the EUB will continue to process the applications without further notice or without a hearing.
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.
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, subject to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
In accordance with Section 23.1 of the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board Rules of Practice, a person who intends to raise a question of constitutional law before the Board must give notice in accordance with Section 12 of the Administrative Procedures and Jurisdiction Act and its regulation.
In accordance with Section 38 of the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board Rules of Practice, witnesses must give evidence under oath or affirmation.
Issued at Calgary, Alberta, on November 2, 2007.
ALBERTA ENERGY AND UTILITIES BOARD
Douglas A. Larder, Q.C., General Counsel
