Innovation, Trade and Rural Development
June 12, 2008

Media Advisory: Minister to Speak at Official Opening of Marine Institute�s Command and Control Centre

The Honourable Trevor Taylor, Minister of Innovation, Trade and Rural Development, will speak at the official opening of the Marine Institute�s Command and Control Centre tomorrow (Friday, June 13). World-renowned oceanographer and explorer Dr. Bob Ballard, along with Dr. Eddy Campbell, Acting President of Memorial University, and Glenn Blackwood, Executive Director of the Marine Institute, will accompany Minister Taylor in the opening.

The announcement will take place at 12:00 noon in the planetarium at the Marine Institute�s Ridge Road Campus in St. John�s.

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Media contact:

Scott Barfoot
Director of Communications
Department of Innovation, Trade and Rural Development
709-729-4570, 690-6290
ScottBarfoot@gov.nl.ca

2008 06 12                                                      10:30 a.m.


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