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CALGARY, Alberta — E3 LITHIUM LTD. (TSXV: ETL) (FSE: OW3) (OTCQX: EEMMF), “E3”, “E3 Lithium” or the “Company,” a leader in Canadian lithium development, announces that its Clearwater Project has been selected for inclusion in the Canada Investment Summit Prospectus (the “Prospectus”), a curated portfolio of investment-ready Canadian projects presented to global institutional investors, strategic partners and allied governments. Concurrently, the Company announces the formation of its Strategic Advisory Group, with the appointment of industry leaders Chris Slubicki, Dr. Mike Dixon, and Kyle Rousay.
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“Inclusion in the Canada Investment Summit Prospectus recognizes that Clearwater is a project getting ready to be built,” said Chris Doornbos, CEO & Chair of E3 Lithium. “The maturation of the technology and engineering continues to demonstrate that the lithium resources in Alberta contain significant value, and producing battery ready products on site supports Canada’s initiative to supply the global battery and energy ecosystem. We are proud to represent Canada and Alberta’s lithium at this event. In line with E3’s progression and maturation, our new advisory group will be instrumental in supporting our strategy development and delivering on our goals.”
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The Canada Investment Summit (the “Summit”) is being hosted by Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, in partnership with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Public Sector Pension Investment Board in Toronto, Ontario, on September 14 and 15, 2026. The Summit convenes international institutional capital, strategic industry participants, and government partners to attract up to $1 trillion of investment into Canada, including a shortlist of Canadian projects named in the Prospectus. Inclusion in the Prospectus is by selection only and reflects the technical maturity, strategic value, and investment-readiness of the selected projects. E3’s Clearwater Project’s inclusion reflects its combination of scale, technical maturity, infrastructure access, and jurisdictional advantages that few lithium projects possess simultaneously, anywhere in the world.
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The Clearwater Project sits within Alberta’s Bashaw District, where E3 has defined 16.2 million tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) Measured and Indicated mineral resource
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, one of the largest lithium resource endowments in North America. The Company is progressing development of Stage 1 of the Project with a capacity of 12,000 tonnes per year of lithium carbonate with the resource and brine volume to support significant increases in production.
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E3’s Clearwater Project will produce battery ready products in Alberta, without the need for additional refining. The Front-End Engineering and Design (“FEED”) for the first of many facilities is underway, building on E3’s Pre-Feasibility Study completed in 2024, which confirmed Canada’s first proven and probable lithium brine reserve with an after-tax NPV
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of US$3.7 billion
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. Operating the only lithium carbonate demonstration facility in Canada, E3 is currently proving the process at increasing scale.
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The Clearwater Project is transitioning a historic producing asset; it leverages Alberta’s existing energy infrastructure, including roads, power, wellbore data, and an experienced workforce. Alberta provides a single, established regulator and a century of operating precedent; a materially different risk profile than greenfield lithium development in most other jurisdictions.
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The Company has made significant advancement in moving the Project from a concept, to resource and reserves identification, building and operating a Demonstration Facility, producing battery-grade lithium carbonate, submitting the Central Processing Facility permit application, and advancing its Feasibility Study as it progresses toward Final Investment Decision.
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E3 has established a Strategic Advisory Group (the “Advisors”), comprised of Chris Slubicki, Dr. Mike Dixon, and Kyle Rousay. The Advisors will support the CEO and the executive team, providing counsel on capital allocation, project financing, strategic partnerships and offtake, transaction execution, process design decisions, readiness for construction, and technology scale-up. These additions continue a deliberate build-out of senior capability ahead of commercialization, including Brian Newmarch’s appointment as Chief Financial Officer in mid-2025 and Tom Gear’s appointment as Chief Operating Officer in mid-2026.
Article contentChris SlubickiArticle contentis a founder and former President, CEO and Director of Modern Resources Inc., a Calgary-based producer he grew to 20,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day and which was recognized as an ESG leader and low-cost performer before its sale to Tourmaline Oil Corp. in 2020. He previously served as President and CEO of OPTI Canada Inc., where he and his team stabilized a financially and technically distressed oil sands producer and delivered its US$2.1 billion sale to CNOOC in 2011. Chris was one of four founders of Waterous & Co., the global oil and gas M&A firm sold to Bank of Nova Scotia in 2005 and later served as Vice-Chairman of Scotia Waterous. He holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Queen’s University and an MBA from the University of Calgary and is registered as a professional engineer with APEGA.