DORIN LAND AND OILFIELD MANAGEMENT INC. April 15, 2015 Mr. Gene Zwozdesky PC Party Candidate Edmonton Mill Creek VIA E-MAIL 9760 60 Ave, Edmonton Alberta, Canada T6E 0C5 Telephone (780) 430-0840 Fax (780) 430-0367 [email protected] Dear Sir: Re: Surface Rights and Oil & Gas Regulatory Issues in Alberta A card bearing your name as candidate, seeking our votes, left on the door at my home, bullets the “realistic” plan Premier Jim Prentice has to secure our future. Unfortunately “the plan” is silent in respect of some of the most important aspects of our future as Albertans: 1. How a PC Government will solve problems associated with decades of mismanagement of Alberta’s oil and gas industry – critical to Alberta’s future. Regulatory non-compliant (highly unsafe and life threatening) oil and gas operations exist all over Alberta. One of the worst-offending operations is in the City of Edmonton where we live, jeopardizing countless lives on the adjacent Anthony Henday Drive and surrounding neighborhoods.  What future would an Albertan have if his or her life was sacrificed in favour of unsafely and illegally producing a few barrels of oil from an old decrepit oil field contributing nothing to the province’s coffers (because the minerals for the most part are privately owned or freehold minerals)? 2. How the Surface Rights Board shall go about conducting the review of the Lemke case Premier Prentice (most improperly) requested in Three Hills on April 13.  Our clients have requested, and have been granted the right, to the very type of review Premier requested the Board to provide (albeit as to far more serious matters, which have gone unresolved for far longer). Applications filed in June of 2011 for reconsideration of highly flawed former decisions and orders of such Board are still pending. The original operators circumvented the application process to obtain illegally issued orders for prohibited surface activities. The Surface Rights Board is presumed to be an impartial, expert, quasi-judicial body, acting at arm’s length from government. It should act only on applications properly filed. Such Board should not act on requests from operators, or the premier of the province seeking votes, made outside the provisions of Alberta law. (No wonder surface rights issues are in such a mess.) The overloaded Surface Rights Board has insufficient members, budget, and expertise, to deal with the issues faced by Albertans. It simply does not possess the tools to solve everyday problems, which should never have arisen in the first place, created by irresponsible junior oil companies - allowed to lease and produce the provinces resources illegally and unsafely and circumvent the Surface Rights Act application process as Premier Prentice also seeks to do. RESIDENTAL AND OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT CAN CO-EXIST