The CEO of Force Oil Company, Duncan Fife, gave a speech at the World Environmental Conference. In his speech, Mr. Fife spoke about Force Oil’s goal of doing no damage to the environment as a result of the company’s operations and gave specific details on how the company was achieving this goal. Mr. Fife stated that no matter where the company operates and regardless of what the legal or contractual requirements are, Force Oil will always leave every place it operates “better than they found it.”

REQUIRED: Determine if Mr. Fife’s speech could result in recognition of an ARO.