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<div style="margin-top: 12pt; font-size: 10pt;" align="left"><b>7. ASSET RETIREMENT OBLIGATIONS</b> </div>
<div style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 10pt;" align="left"> The following table provides a reconciliation of the changes in the estimated asset retirement obligation for the three months ended March 31, 2011. </div>
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<table style="font-size: 10pt;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="50%">
<tr valign="bottom"><td width="78%"> </td>
<td width="5%"> </td>
<td width="1%"> </td>
<td width="15%"> </td>
<td width="1%"> </td></tr>
<tr style="font-size: 8pt;" valign="bottom"><td align="left">(In thousands)</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td></tr>
<tr style="font-size: 1px;"><td style="border-top: #000000 1px solid;" colspan="5" align="left"> </td></tr>
<tr style="background: #cceeff;" valign="bottom"><td>
<div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 15px;">Beginning asset retirement obligations</div></td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">$</td>
<td align="right">57,809</td>
<td> </td></tr>
<tr valign="bottom"><td>
<div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 15px;">Additional liability incurred</div></td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">3,610</td>
<td> </td></tr>
<tr style="background: #cceeff;" valign="bottom"><td>
<div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 15px;">Accretion expense</div></td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">613</td>
<td> </td></tr>
<tr valign="bottom"><td>
<div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 15px;">Asset retirement costs incurred</div></td>
<td> </td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" align="left"> </td>
<td align="right">(268</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap">)</td></tr>
<tr style="background: #cceeff;" valign="bottom"><td>
<div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 15px;">Gain on settlement of liability</div></td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">135</td>
<td> </td></tr>
<tr valign="bottom"><td>
<div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 15px;">Currency translation adjustment</div></td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">1,004</td>
<td> </td></tr>
<tr style="font-size: 1px;"><td>
<div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 15px;"> </div></td>
<td> </td>
<td style="border-top: #000000 1px solid;" colspan="3" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"> </td></tr>
<tr style="background: #cceeff;" valign="bottom"><td>
<div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 15px;">Ending asset retirement obligations</div></td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">62,903</td>
<td> </td></tr>
<tr valign="bottom"><td>
<div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 15px;">Less current portion</div></td>
<td> </td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" align="left"> </td>
<td align="right">(1,574</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap">)</td></tr>
<tr style="font-size: 1px;"><td>
<div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 15px;"> </div></td>
<td> </td>
<td style="border-top: #000000 1px solid;" colspan="3" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"> </td></tr>
<tr style="background: #cceeff;" valign="bottom"><td>
<div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 15px;">Long-term asset retirement obligation</div></td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">$</td>
<td align="right">61,329</td>
<td> </td></tr>
<tr style="font-size: 1px;"><td>
<div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 15px;"> </div></td>
<td> </td>
<td style="border-top: #000000 3px double;" colspan="3" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"> </td></tr></table></div></div> </div>7. ASSET RETIREMENT OBLIGATIONS
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-Publisher FASB
-Name Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (FAS)
-Number 143
-Paragraph 22
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