THUNDER BAY, ON - June 18, 2008 - $5,000 Proceeds Donated to Thunder Bay Regional Health Science Foundation

On May 21, 2008 Spectra Energy (NYSE: SE), the parent company of Union Gas Limited, selected the 2008 recipients of its prestigious Summit Award, an annual, company-wide program established to acknowledge extraordinary individual and team accomplishments by Spectra Energy employees and contractors.
Nominated by coworkers and selected by a committee of peers from different areas of the
company, award recipients must demonstrate more than success or achievement; their
efforts must epitomize Spectra Energy’s “charter values.” As such, honorees are recognized for their outstanding achievement and visionary thinking in the areas of Safety, Stewardship, Integrity, Respect for the Individual, Initiative, High Performance and Win-Win Relationships.
In keeping with the company’s commitment to the communities it serves, Summit Award
recipients are presented with a $5,000 check to be donated to non-profit organizations of
their choosing.
One of this year’s five recipients is Union Gas employee Nanda Claydon, of Thunder Bay,
Ontario.
Nanda Claydon turned giving back to the community into a teambuilding venture that has
swept the company. She started by organizing a team at the Union Gas Contact Center in
Thunder Bay, Canada, to create fleece blankets and shawls to sell in support of United
Way. Then, she turned to making pink shawls for cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. Her team made 50 pink shawls and donated them to the Northern Cancer
Research Foundation in Thunder Bay. The success of the project led Claydon to launch
“Pass the Pink Torch,” encouraging other company offices to form teams to make pink
shawls for their local cancer societies. The Pink Torch has since passed to offices in North Bay, Kingston, Brantford, Chatham, Calgary and Vancouver, and these offices continue to challenge other locations. Claydon will donate her $5,000 prize to the Thunder Bay Regional Health Science Foundation.
Union Gas is an integrated natural gas storage, transmission and distribution company
serving approximately 1.3 million customers, and is a Spectra Energy company. Spectra
Energy Corp (NYSE: SE) is one of North America’s premier natural gas infrastructure
companies serving three key links in the natural gas value chain: gathering and processing,
transmission and storage and distribution. For close to a century, Spectra Energy and its
predecessor companies have developed critically important pipelines and related energy
infrastructure connecting natural gas supply sources to premium markets. Based in
Houston, Texas, the company operates in the United States and Canada approximately
17,500 miles of transmission pipeline, 265 billion cubic feet of storage, natural gas gathering and processing, natural gas liquids operations and local distribution assets. Spectra Energy Corp also has a 50 percent ownership in DCP Midstream, one of the largest natural gas gatherers and processors in the United States. Visit www.spectraenergy.com for more information.

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“Nanda Claydon’s efforts impacted the lives of amazing women during one of
the most challenging times of their lives and gave them additional strength,”
says Glenn Craig, President & CEO of the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences
Foundation.
The pink shawls made by Nanda and her team were presented to the former
Northern Cancer Research Foundation in November, 2007 with a specific
request to pass them on to women undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer
at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre’s Regional Cancer Care.
Within one week, fifty fleece pink shawls were distributed to patients. Patients
and healthcare professionals alike were so appreciative of the shawls that
requests for more flooded the Foundation.
“Cancer is a highly emotional disease,” says Charlene Gillespie, Chemotheraoy
Nurse at Regional Cancer Care. “Women with breast cancer frequently feel a
loss of identity, anger and depression. They often feel isolated.”
The pink shawls let breast cancer patients know that people in the community
care for them, are fighting along with them. The gift of a pink shawl from a
caring stranger can endow the courage it takes to survive breast cancer.
“I wanted to let these brave women know that others were thinking of them,”
says Nanda. “The pink shawls provide the equivalent of an embrace on behalf of
the community…a smile from a friend.”
Ongoing support and participation from Nanda’s co-workers at Thunder Bay’s
Union Gas Contact Centre helped make the project a success. Nanda’s “project
pink shawl” soon caught the attention of colleagues throughout Canada and the
United States. Today, inspired employees of Spectra Energy (The parent
company of Union Gas) are expanding Nanda’s efforts in an international project
dubbed “Pass the Pink Torch”.
Nanda and her team of Union Gas employee volunteers will continue to make
shawls for breast cancer patients at Regional Cancer Care. In addition, Nanda
presented the $5,000 awarded to her by Spectra Energy to the Northern
Cancer Fund of the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Foundation in an
effort to support excellence in cancer care in Northwestern Ontario.
“Nanda Claydon is an exceptional individual,” says Glenn Craig. “We are grateful
for her outstanding kindness and generosity.”