HTC Announces completion of a comprehensive CO 2 capture, engineering and costing evaluation report

Regina, Saskatchewan - HTC Purenergy (“HTC”) today announced that it has completed a comprehensive CO 2 capture; engineering and costing evaluation on the construction of a 420 megawatt CO 2 capture power generator facility in Norway. HTC is utilizing technologies developed by the International Test Center for CO 2 capture at the University of Regina, the PSR line of designer solvents, along with subcontracted plant costing by Bechtel Power Corporation (“Bechtel”), the world’s largest power plant builder.

HTC believes this project will be one of the first full scale post-combustion CO2 capture projects for a power plant to be built in the world, and looks forward to being one of the final bidders once the Norwegian Government makes the final decision to go ahead with construction

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