E N E R G Y & T H E E N V I R O N M E N T O n T h e T h r e s h o l d o f O p p o r t u n i t y The Next Energy Revolution Reclaiming The Planet spanning air, soil and water  treatment. Our product  solutions in this space are  cost effective and generally  supported by intellectual  property and other proprietary  technologies.  The green nature of our  peroxygen chemistry makes it  a preferred solution for many  environmental and food safety  applications. Our persulfate  chemistry serves as the  leading solution for destroying  organic contaminants in soil.  Meanwhile, our hydrogen  peroxide and trona applications  are used for scrubbing acid  gases from air emissions at  utilities and industrial boiler  operations. And both hydrogen  peroxide and peracetic acid are being used to treat  municipal and processed  waters.  We envision steadily growing,  long-term opportunities in  this area, particularly among  developed and developing  economies, due to increasing  natural resource and  environmental pressures.  Across our Industrial Chemicals  portfolio, we are pursuing  a number of promising  environmental applications  Just as sustainable energy  resources are becoming a  higher priority for people  around the globe, there is  growing interest in solutions  that protect and reclaim the  environment. Here, too, FMC  offers the right chemistry to  serve these vital needs. Meanwhile, FMC Industrial  Chemicals is serving the  oil and gas industry, which  utilizes hydrogen peroxide for  enhanced oil recovery in oil  sands operations. And we are  exploring other potential uses  of our peroxygens chemistry in  energy production. now and 2015 – and the  potential for a doubling of that  growth rate starting in 2015. Identifying opportunity at the  earliest stages of change is  one characteristic of market  leadership. As FMC looks to  2015, we expect to be at the  launching point of accelerated  demand for two major areas  of our proprietary chemistries.  Both areas will be driven by  natural resource realities and  cultural priorities. With growing awareness that  petroleum-based energy  resources are steadily  becoming more scarce,  more difficult to extract and  inevitably more expensive for  consumers, today we are at  the cusp of growing demand  for alternative sources of  energy. Energy storage is one  of FMC’s key markets where  our lithium chemistry is used in  lithium-ion batteries to power  cell phones, computers, power  tools and now automobiles.  As one of the world’s largest  lithium suppliers, we are  poised to serve new, innovative  energy storage applications  that are poised to grow rapidly  within the next five years as  demand accelerates in the  United States, Europe and  particularly in India and China. With governments and  societies in industrialized  countries continuing to make  shifts in policies and priorities  that favor alternative energy  sources, we expect steady  market growth of 6 to 7  percent annually between  FMC Corporation | 2010 Annual Report 16