Coal Association of Canada to Present Awards to David Fawcett and SaskPower at Vancouver Conference in September - Video News Alert on InvestmentPitch.com

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - August 26, 2015) - The Coal Association of Canada announced the recipients of this year's special awards to be presented at their annual conference held from September 16th to 18th at the beautiful Westin Bayshore Hotel in Vancouver. David Fawcett is this year's worthy recipient of the 2015 CAC Award of Distinction, which honours an outstanding leader in Canada's coal industry.

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With 40 years in the Canadian coal industry, Mr. Fawcett, a graduate of the University of Alberta's School of Mining Engineering, has held a broad range of responsibilities from early stage geology and exploration, regulatory and permitting, to operations, management and executive positions for several major, intermediate and start-up companies. In the past 20 years, Mr. Fawcett has played a key role in the coal industry in northeast British Columbia, with coal property acquisition and early stage development for a wide variety of coal mining companies and projects.

Ann Marie Hann, President of the Coal Association of Canada stated: "Mr. Fawcett is widely acknowledged for his visionary leadership in reviving the coal industry in northeast British Columbia. His efforts put the region on the global coal map. His involvement in so many projects has left a strong legacy for the future of the region and province."

Mr. Fawcett previously received the Coal Award from the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (2011) and the E. A. Scholz Award for Excellence in Mine Development from the Association for Mineral Exploration of British Columbia (2012).

On September 17^th, at the Conference Banquet, the Coal Association of Canada will also present SaskPower with a Special Recognition Award for environmental and innovation achievement related to its Boundary Dam Carbon Capture and Storage Project near Estevan, Saskatchewan. The project, the first of its kind in the world, involves the integration of a rebuilt coal-fired generation unit with carbon capture technology.

The resultant low-emission power generation project will realize a number of environmental benefits, among them reducing annual greenhouse gas emissions by up to one million tonnes of carbon dioxide, or 90% of emissions, the equivalent to taking more than 250,000 cars off roads annually. With its Boundary Dam Project, SaskPower is proving that CCS technology provides a real pathway to low emissions from coal, demonstrating that coal can continue to be a responsible energy alternative in Canada and around the world.

We hope you'll join us from September 16th to 18th at the Westin Bayshore Hotel in Vancouver for the Coal Association of Canada's 2015 conference and golf tournament, sponsored by the Westmoreland Coal Company (NASDAQ: WLB) (www.westmoreland.com). Gather with the coal industry to network and hear a diverse group of speakers.

For more information about the Coal Association of Canada and this year's conference, please visit www.coal.ca or contact Michelle Mondeville, Director of Communications, at 780-993-6651 or email mondeville@coal.ca.

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