TROUT UNLIMITED CANADA RECEIVES SPECIAL CENTENNIAL
COMMUNITY GRANT FROM UNION GAS
Funds will enable the Ted Knott Chapter to hold public information meetings to create better awareness of the amazing recovery of Mill Creek, Cayuga 

Burlington, ON – Trout Unlimited Canada has been awarded a $1,000 Centennial Community Grant from Union Gas to support a series of informative local meetings to illustrate the remarkable volunteer effort being put forth by the region’s citizens and organizations to return Mill Creek to its former state: A thriving brook trout ecosystem.

Union Gas is celebrating 100 years of delivering safe, reliable and affordable service to customers and communities across Ontario in 2011. This award is one of 100 Centennial grants of $1,000 each that Union Gas is giving out to support charitable projects focused on the environment, community safety and education across the province.

Dave Lamoureux, Union Gas District Manager for Hamilton/Haltom, presented the cheque to Bill Christmas, president, Ted Knott Chapter, Trout Unlimited Canada at a presentation today at the Union Gas Burlington offices on Mainway Drive. 

“A passionate commitment to stewardship, safety and win-win relationships are all central to our business culture and operations,” said Lamoureux . “Our success as one of North America’s premier natural gas storage, transmission and distribution companies is shared with the communities we serve and we can’t think of a better way to mark this occasion than by giving back to a community program that so closely aligns with these business values.”

The project began in 2006 has since been working to restore a local brook trout stream, destroyed in 1967 when a dam was constructed at Taquanyah Conservation Area to create a failed fishing lake. Removal of the dam and a major effort involving subsequent stream remediation and monitoring will ensure the return of a healthy, self sustaining trout population after an absence of over 40 years.

“Haldimand County needs a good news story,” said Christmas. “Rolling back the environmental clock 40 years with community effort sums it up nicely. It has been an effort covering all generations and bodes well for continued environmental awareness in this province.” 

About Trout Unlimited Canada

Our mission: To conserve, protect and restore Canada’s freshwater ecosystems and their coldwater resources for current and future generations

About Union Gas 

Union Gas Limited is a major Canadian natural gas storage, transmission and distribution company based in Ontario with nearly 100 years of experience and service to customers. The distribution business serves 1.3 million residential, commercial and industrial customers in more than 400 communities across northern, southwestern and eastern Ontario. Union Gas's growing storage and transmission business offers premium storage and transportation services to customers at the Dawn Hub, the largest underground storage facility in Canada and one of the largest in North America. It offers customers an important link in the movement of natural gas from Western Canadian and U.S. supply basins to markets in central Canada and the northeast U.S. Union Gas, one of Canada's Top 100 Employers for 2011, is a Spectra Energy (NYSE: SE) company with assets of $5 billion and approximately 2,200 employees. For more information, visit uniongas.com.

CONTACTS:

Trout Unlimited Canada
Bill Christmas, 
President, Ted Knott Chapter, Trout Unlimited Canada
Ph 905 765 2720 or 905 520 0047
billxmas@shaw.ca

Union Gas Limited
Andrea Stass
Manager, Public Affairs and Media Relations Union Gas Limited
Ph: 519 436-5490 or 1-800-571-8446 ext. 5490
Cell: 519 365-1010
Fax: 519 436-4621
astass@uniongas.com