Ann: Empire Energy Strengthens the Board, page-3

Well there you have it folks! GERD has been defeated!  No way this would have happened otherwise.  

Great victory for all small shareholders that this take over by stealth has been seen for what it is.  Changed my sentiment to buy.

Taken the following from the Pacific Road Group website, looks to be exceptionally well qualified to get us to the position we need to be with respect to bringing in a partner and is clearly a person who will have great integrity.  GERD attempting to throw mud is just sour grapes from a group that mis represented/had discoverable falsehoods on their CVs, who know's what else they have been up to that's not so easy to find out.....

"Paul established Pacific Road Group (PRG), a corporate advisory house focusing on resources and infrastructure sectors, in 1986. He was Chairman of Oxiana Limited during the company making acquisition and development of the Sepon copper/gold deposit in Laos (2000 to 2003) and prior to that Chairman of Cobar Mines Pty Ltd following a management buy-out of the Cobar copper mine from Rio Tinto Group in 1993. Prior to establishing PRG, Paul was Managing Director of Bank of America Australia in Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea focussed on resources projects. Paul was formerly Chairman of Australian Infrastructure Fund, the Australian Merchant Banking Association and Freight Rail Corporation and his other Boards have included Hastings Funds Management, Utilities Trust of Australia, Adelaide Brighton Limited and Aurelia Metals Limited. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, a director of the Menzies Research Centre and is also a member of the Australasian Committee of the Eisenhower Exchange Foundation."