I, Robert Sweeney, hereby declare as follows:
1. My date of birth is [____________], and I reside at [___________].
2. I graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1952. I then worked for Consolidated Paper Corporation from April 1952 until February 1960 at the Wayagamack Division, starting as a junior engineer and ending as the Acting Divisional Engineer. I left Consolidated Paper to join Columbia Cellulose Company in March 1960 to work at their new mill (Celgar), which was under construction in Castlegar BC. Over the years I was working at Celgar, I progressed from Project Engineer, to Maintenance Engineer, to Maintenance Superintendent, to Chief Project Engineer, to Plant Engineer, to General Production Superintendent, to General Manager. In 1973, Columbia Cellulose was renamed Canadian Cellulose. In early 1974, I was transferred to the head office of Canadian Cellulose in Vancouver as Chief Engineer, until October 1975, when I transferred back to Castlegar as General Manager of Celgar. In 1986, the Celgar Mill was purchased by the Partnership of Power Consolidated Bathurst and CITIC, and I remained as the Mill’s General Manager. When the Celgar Mill began planning for its modernization project in 1989, I moved on to become General Manager of the Celgar Pulp Modernization Project. I retired in February 1992, once the project received approval of the required environmental permits and construction got underway.