Alberta Oilsands Inc. Provides Notice to Smoothwater Capital Corporation on Previous Requisition Notice
27.08.2016 | Marketwire
CALGARY, Aug. 26, 2016 - Alberta Oilsands Inc. ("AOS") (TSX VENTURE:AOS) announces that further to its press release on August 23, 2016, AOS has provided notice to Smoothwater Capital Corporation ("Smoothwater") that, due to the fact that the notice received from Smoothwater on August 22, 2016, under the AOS advance notice by-laws (for the nomination of five Smoothwater nominee directors at AOS's next annual meeting of shareholders) (the "Nomination Notice") is contradictory to the business proposed in the requisition of a shareholder meeting received from Smoothwater on March 28, 2016 (the "Requisition") to replace three AOS directors with three Smoothwater nominee directors, AOS considers the Requisition to have been abandoned. As a result, AOS will not be transacting the business set out in the Requisition at its upcoming annual meeting of shareholders to be held on November 15, 2016.AOS has further provided notice to Smoothwater that the content of the Nomination Notice has not been received in proper written form pursuant to the AOS advance notice by-laws.
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AOS holds bitumen leases in the Athabasca oil sands region of northeast Alberta. The Corporation's head office is located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and its common shares are traded on the TSX Venture Exchange under the trading symbol "AOS".
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Alberta Oilsands Inc.
Binh Vu, Interim CEO
+1 416 951 8800
bvu@aboilsands.ca