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EUB SCIENTIST HONOURED AS NOBEL LAUREATE
Dr. Stefan Bachu’s work on carbon sequestration and storage wins him Nobel Laureate

Calgary, Alberta (November 27, 2007) The Alberta Energy and Utilities Board (EUB) is proud to announce that Dr. Stefan Bachu, a senior scientist with the EUB, has been honoured as a Nobel Laureate for his participation on the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on October 12, 2007 jointly to former U.S Vice President Al Gore and to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Dr. Bachu is recognized as one of the top world specialists on carbon sequestration, and he was one of the lead authors on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage. 

His status as a Nobel Laureate was confirmed in a letter of October 15, 2007.

According to the Nobel Foundation, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was a recipient of the Nobel Peace prize: “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such a change."

Dr. Bachu is in Calgary this week attending the 3rd G8-International EnergyAgency-Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum Workshop on Near-Term Opportunities for Carbon Capture and Storage. The organizations were directed by the G8 Leaders to advance large-scale carbon capture and storage and to present answers at the 2008 G8 Summit in Japan.

The EUB ensures that the discovery, development, and delivery of Alberta’s energy resources and utility services takes place in a manner that is fair, responsible, and in the public interest.

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For more information, please contact:
Darin Barter, EUB Communications
Tel: (403) 297-4116
Cell: (403) 681-0946
Email: darin.barter@eub.ca