Fortis and BlackRock, Inc. - Notification

In accordance with the rules on financial transparency, BlackRock, Inc. issued a notification on 4 December 2009 to declare that they now hold an interest of 3.39% in Fortis, following their acquisition of Barclays Global Investors (BGI) on 1st December 2009. Further to this acquisition, the combined holdings of BlackRock, Inc. has exceeded the statutory threshold of 3% of the shares issued by Fortis.


The notifications received by Fortis are available on the Fortis website under "Investor relations - The share - Transparency requirements"

A copy of the notification form from sent by BlackRock, Inc.

(http://www.fortis.com/Shareholders/transparency_requirements.asp).


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