Little Buffalo Lake, Alberta
					    Phone:  403-629-3945
					    Fax:  403-629-3939

					    Mailing address:
					    3536 - 106 Street
					    Edmonton, Alberta T6J 1A4
					    Phone:  403-436-5652
					    Fax:  403-437-0719


September 19, 1994

Mr. Murray Semchuk
Supervisor, Gas Processing Plants
Energy Resources Conservation Board
640 Fifth Avenue S.W.
Calgary, AB T2P 3G4
FAX:  297-7040

Dear Mr. Semchuk:

Rob Barber asked that we write the ERCB again reiterating our
opposition to construction of the Unocal sour gas processing plant
Application No. 931526, providing additional detail regarding the
reasons for our opposition and repeating our request for a public
hearing.  We note that Mr. Barber makes this obviously redundant
request while Unocal rushes to complete construction of the plant
and presume that Mr. Barber's transparent efforts to buy time are
not unrelated to Unocal's crash construction efforts. 

Needless to say it's not lost on the Lubicon people that stopping
the plant will be harder to accomplish once the plant is completed
-- especially since the ERCB was formally advised of Lubicon
opposition to construction of the plant prior to commencement of
crash construction efforts complete with the promise of a big bonus
for construction workers if they finish the plant by September
22nd.  Neither will it be lost on people from across the country
and around the world monitoring this situation and variously
planning to participate in a full public review of serious health
and environmental concerns related to this plant and sour gas
processing plants generally, the questionable basis of ERCB
approval of the plant, the circumstances under which the plant has
been hurriedly constructed, lack of any ERCB action to suspend
construction of the plant after being formally advised of Lubicon
opposition, ERCB actions since being advised of Lubicon opposition
which have had the effect of buying time for Unocal while crash
plant construction efforts proceeded, the right of the Alberta
Provincial Government to sell Unocal natural resources from the
unceded Lubicon territory in the first place and the genocidal
consequences for the Lubicon people of massive resource
exploitation activity in the unceded Lubicon territory by multi-national
resource exploitation companies and their cronies in the
Alberta Provincial Government. 


The Lubicon people therefore formally reiterate our opposition to
construction of the Unocal sour gas processing plant in our
traditional territory.  We formally repeat that the basis of our
opposition is not a technical and specific problem which can
hypothetically be addressed by a specific technical remedy but
widely reported adverse health and environmental consequences
associated with sour gas processing plants which continue to exist
no matter what supposed technical remedies are applied.  And we
again formally request the public hearing provided in the Board's
enabling legislation for persons whose rights are directly and
adversely affected by a proposed energy facility. 



Sincerely,



Chief Bernard Ominayak
Lubicon Lake Indian Nation