OREANDA-NEWS. May 05, 2008. At the festive gala night held last week in Washington by the United States-Baltic Foundation (USBF), Eesti Energia was awarded the Baltic Corporate Citizen Award), reported the press-centre of Eesti Energia.

The United States-Baltic Foundation highly appreciated the creative leadership style of the Chairman of the Management Board of the energy group and pointed out the remarkable achievements of the company at valuing oil shale. The USBF praised the initiative of Eesti Energia to contribute to the development of renewable energy production sources and the promotion of energy saving, which is clearly aimed at saving the energy resources of the Baltics.

At the festive gala night, the Baltic Statesmanship Award, the Baltic Image Enhancement Award and the Baltic Cultural Achievement Award were also presented.

The USBF is a foundation that is engaged in developing and strengthening the relations between the United States of America and Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

Read more about the activities of the foundation at the website of USBF at http://www.usbaltic.org/