The transcript of a letter (appended) received from FOLC’s lawyer will correct false and misleading rumours that have been set into motion and are circulating.

The rumours motivated some individuals to distance themselves from FOLC and thereby to stop resisting the attempts to impose on the residents of Lamont County industrial processes that are potentially harmful in a variety of ways, in respect to health, lives, properties and our way of life, in addition to not yet identified increased tax burdens because of not yet specified necessary upgrades to the County’s infrastructure (e. g.: requirements for road construction, fire-fighting and emergency response capabilities).

The transcript of the letter:

ACKROYD, LLP
BARRISTERS & SOLICITORS

RICHARD C. SECORD, LLM
(780) 412-2717
rsecord(_at_)ackroydlaw.com
ASSISTANT: NICOLE MAH
(780) 423-8905 ext 243
nicolem(_at_)ackroydlaw.com

OUR FILE No. 136695/RCS

YOUR FILE No.

January 31, 2009

Members of the Friends of Lamont County

Dear Friends of Lamont County Members:

Re:    HAZCO ALBERTA SULPHUR TERMINALS LTD.
SULPHUR FORMING AND SHIPPING FACILITY APPLICATION NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION BOARD (”NRCB”) HEARING APRIL 14, 2009

We have been retained by the Friends of Lamont County (”FOLC”) to represent it at the Natural Resources Conservation Board (”NRCB”) Hearing which will take place on April 14, 2009 in Fort Saskatchewan. An NRCB Pre-hearing Conference meeting was held in Lamont on January 27, 2009.

In paragraph 27 of the Pre-hearing Submission filed by the FOLC, it stated:

… in order to effectively participate in the hearing, they require expert advice and legal counsel. As they receive no financial benefit from the Project, they should not have to finance the cost of the experts and legal counsel.

We understand that you may have been contacted by various individuals suggesting that membership in the FOLC may result in liability for legal fees and expert costs in the event that all of those costs are not recovered through the NRCB’s Intervener Cost Claim Process.

We wanted to let you know that our retainer to act for FOLC is on the basis that our legal fees will be recovered through the NRCB Intervener Cost Claim Process. In the event that all of our legal fees are not recovered in that process, there will be no additional levy to any of the members of the FOLC.

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The experts that are working for the FOLC have also been retained on the same basis. These experts will be filing reports which will assist the NRCB in determining whether the HAZCO project is in the public interest. In· the event that the FOLC experts do not receive full payment through the NRCB Intervener Cost Claim Process, there will be no additional levy to any of the members of the FOLC.

If you have any questions about the basis of our retainer, please do hesitate to contact the undersigned at 780-412-2717 or Kevin Schultz at 780-940-9832 or Denis Van Brabant at 780-818-2011.

Yours truly,

ACKROYDLLP

(Signed)

RICHARD C. SECORD RCS/nm

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