HTC Announces Awarding of Comprehensive Engineering Study

Regina , Saskatchewan - HTC Purenergy (“HTC”) today announced that it is conducting a comprehensive engineering study for the construction of a 420 megawatt CO2 capture power generator facility in Norway. HTC will be utilizing technologies developed by the International Test Center for CO2 capture at the University of Regina, along with assistance from Bechtel Power Corporation (“Bechtel”), the world’s largest power plant builder.

Chairman of HTC, Mr. Lionel Kambeitz said: “We have chosen to ally ourselves with industry leaders such as Bechtel. We have world leading technologies at HTC with the intellectual and human capital capable of engineering, constructing and optimizing CO2 management systems.”

HTC Purenergy provides Carbon Management solutions to industry worldwide, from its head office in Regina, Saskatchewan. HTC is a public company, listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange Venture Exchange, trading as “HTC”. The latest corporate news is available on our website at www.htcenergy.com.

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For more information contact:

Jeff Allison,

HTC Purenergy

Telephone: (306) 352-6132

Fax: (306) 545-3262

E-mail: jallison@htcenergy.com

HTC Purenergy corporate developments can be followed on http://www.htcenergy.com/ and is traded under the symbol HTC