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News Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

EUB ISSUES MONTHLY ENFORCEMENT ACTION SUMMARY

Calgary, Alberta (June 19, 2007) The Alberta Energy and Utilities Board (EUB) today issued the first EUB Monthly Enforcement Action Summary, which provides industry compliance statistics and a list of enforcement actions taken in response to industry non-compliance. The summary will be posted to the EUB Web site on the last Thursday of each month.

The first report will be for January 2007. Publication of the monthly summary will occur within 120 days of the enforcement actions. This period of time allows completion of review and appeal processes and accurate summary preparation in order to ensure regulatory fairness. Any enforcement action with an appeal pending within the EUB will not be included in the summary. Any enforcement action subsequently continued after an unsuccessful appeal will be included in a later monthly summary.

The monthly summary expands on past reporting and includes all EUB compliance categories with requirements that have been designated high-risk. The summary also contains low-risk enforcement - global refer and legislative/regulatory enforcement action.

When enforcement action is necessary, the EUB requires the operator to correct the problem, submit a plan to ensure the problem will not occur again, and review other similar sites to ensure the same problem will not occur elsewhere.

The EUB ensures that the discovery, development, and delivery of Alberta's resources take place in a manner that is fair, responsible, and in the public interest.

This news release and the EUB Monthly Enforcement Action Summary are available on the EUB Web site at www.ercb.ca.

For more information, please contact:
Bob Curran
EUB Communications
Phone: 403-297-3392 
Fax: 403-297-3757
Email: bob.curran@eub.ca

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