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	Earth Day is EVERY DAY at Brion!</h2>
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	Earth Day is an annual event celebrated on April 22 and events are held worldwide to show support for environmental protection. It was first celebrated in 1970 and its celebrations are found in more than 192 countries each year. For Brion Energy, environmental protection is pursued 24 hours per day, 365 days per year and Earth Day is a great reminder of our commitment to the environment.</p>
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	Brion Energy is driven by commitment to responsible energy development striving to minimizing and mitigating impacts to communities where we operate. A large part of this commitment involves advancing our current knowledge and continuously monitoring our environmental performance while sharing what we learn with our stakeholders. Our environmental footprint is smaller with company endeavours such as:</p>
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	&bull; A transit allowance for employees to commute<br />
	&bull; Recycling on all floors<br />
	&bull; Filtered water on all floors instead of bottled water<br />
	&bull; Our building&rsquo;s lighting system is on a timer<br />
	&bull; At site we&rsquo;ve committed to recycling 95 per cent of our water use</p>
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	Our desire to operate assets with minimal environmental impact comes with challenges Brion to innovate. An example of this is how we&rsquo;ve developed a woodland caribou program aiming to reduce impact not only to caribou, but other wildlife.</p>
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	Brion has a program focusing on several key components of caribou ecology that can be altered by oil sands developments including habitat, food and predation. We are in the early stages of:</p>
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	&bull; Monitoring how wildlife uses the area surrounding our assets &ndash; including restoration plots, lichen habitats and &nbsp; &nbsp;<br />
	&nbsp; seismic lines. We currently have 70 cameras measuring wildlife use, which will help us measure how caribou and<br />
	&nbsp; interacting species, such as wolves, are responding to our mitigative efforts.</p>
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	&bull; Mapping lichen habitats important to caribou nutrition during winter with the goal of facilitating project planning and<br />
	&nbsp; avoidance.</p>
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	&bull; Conducting a feasibility study evaluating emerging seismic technologies with the goal of identifying seismic practices reduce potential overlap between caribou and their predators.</p>
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	&bull; Trialing restoration methods with the goal of accelerating caribou habitat restoration.<br />
	&nbsp; We intend to use the results of our woodland caribou program to adapt how we plan for and operate our assets.</p>
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	Further, we are committed to taking a leadership role to improve environmental performance within the West Side Athabasca River and are talking with other operators and regional stakeholders to discuss how we can share information and move forward together.</p>
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	Everyone at Brion, employees and contractors alike, play a critical role in showing environmental performance to our stakeholders. True environmental and regulatory performance is yielded by the day-to-day choices and actions we take, and our desire to be an industry leader in oil sands development; it should not only be demonstrated when our stakeholders are watching.</p>
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	For Brion, Earth Day is EVERY DAY.</p>
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	Brion is making bold strides in its aspirations to produce 400,000 bbl/d with minimal environmental impact using Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage technology (SAGD).</p>
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	To learn more about current employment opportunities at Brion Energy, visit: <a href="http://www.buildingsomethingbig.com">www.buildingsomethingbig.com</a>.</p>
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