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MCW Energy Group Appoints Environmental Consultants Company For Due Diligence On Its Oil Sands Lease Development In Asphalt Ridge

Shediac, New Brunswick, Canada:  MCW Energy Group, a Canadian holding company involved in oil production/distribution and oil sands recovery technology, today announced that it has appointed JBR Environmental Consultants Inc. to provide environmental and permitting counsel for the Company’s oil sands lease development in Asphalt Ridge, Utah. JBR Environmental Consultants Inc. is a very reputable firm with years of experience in all facets of resource development, including regulatory compliance and permitting, ecological baseline studies, environmental due diligence, audits and mine permitting, reclamation and closure.  JBR has 10 offices in western United States, with a focus on the state of Utah.  The company will provide MCW with a multi-phased plan to develop MCW’s 1338 acre Uintah Basin oil sands lease within the prolific Asphalt Ridge Deposit.

Phase #1:  The Development Plan: This phase will deal with pre-permitting planning and environmental due diligence, which will include a plan for the protection of water and air resources, process data review, volumes utilized during processing, production rates and by-product production to develop a solid scope of work for the permitting phase and to provide recommendations as to what environmental and county permits would be required in order to commence production. JBR would also provide an Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) to complete the environmental due diligence to ensure that any environmental liabilities remaining from previous site operators and/or leaseholders are identified and to ensure that MCW is not left with responsibility for repairing existing environmental conditions.  This work will include an understanding of the scope of the reclamation bond and will be a modification of the Standard Practice for Environmental Site Assessments:  Phase #1:  Environmental Site Assessment Process (Published by the American Society for Testing & Materials – ASTM), since MCW is leasing the property and not purchasing it. JBR would then prepare and assemble all relevant information as related to the permitting process which will include such elements as processing plant footprint, process diagrams/flow charts and product load-out facility location/design among many other factors. Based on this information, JBR would recommend a permitting strategy after discussions with MCW.

Phase #2:  The Permitting Plan: Based on all the information assembled during Phase #1, JBR would subsequently recommend a project permitting phase that would include an inventory of all necessary permits, a detailed description of the information required to prepare the necessary permit applications and a schedule together with cost estimates for obtaining permits.  JBR Environmental Consultants has commenced work on MCW’s oil sands lease and expects to complete its Environmental Site Assessment and pre-permitting review work during the month of July, 2011.  After a review by MCW, JBR would finalize its due diligence report immediately for submission. The MCW Energy Group plans to implement the first of its oil extraction units on its 50+ million barrel resource lease (confirmed by a recent independent report and previous studies by the U.S. Department of Energy) which is situated in the heart of the prolific Asphalt Ridge Region. The Company has recently announced that it has appointed its extraction unit fabricators and suppliers and purchase orders have been signed.  The major components will be manufactured and shipped to Utah commencing in September in preparation for production unit assembly.