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Mcbride2011 V2.3 Viewres.Pdf McBride 2011 Reader Advisory and Disclaimer he statements made in this presentation may contain forward-looking statements that involve Trisks and uncertainties, which may prevent expected future results from being achieved. Forward- looking statements include, without limitation, any statement that may predict, forecast, indicate or imply Preface & Document Outline future results, performance or achievements, and may his document describes a plan to build contain the words “believe”, “anticipate”, “expect”, ancillary businesses to augment and “estimate”, “project”, “will be”, “will continue”, “will complement a 36-60 megaWatts per hour likely result” or similar words or phrases. Forward- T looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, thermal electricity generating plant that will which may cause actual results to differ materially from use sustainable, renewable biomass fuel, sited the forward-looking statements. on land owned by ecoTECH Energy Group near McBride, British Columbia. The Company cautions that actual future performance could be affected by a number of factors, including The businesses are in the sustainable fresh technological change, competitive factors, the success of produce, indoor, land-based food fish research and development programs, our future ability to aquaculture and silviculture sectors. The fund our operations and become profitable, competition, power station and the ancillary businesses are securing and maintaining corporate alliances, our ability being developed by ecoTECH Energy Group to increase our customer base, the services that we or our customers will introduce and the benefits that Incorporated, (“EEGI”) a Nevada corporation, a end users will receive from these services; the impact fully reporting public company, traded on the of entering new markets, market acceptance of the OTC:BB exchange under US SEC rules. Company’s products, the strength of intellectual property, financing capability, reliance on subcontractors and key ecoTECH subsidiary ecoTECH Energy Group personnel and other risks detailed from time-to-time in Canada Inc is the developer in the region and the Company’s financial statements and other information will be the majority owner of the power station. provided to shareholders. Forward-looking statements are made as of the date hereof, and the Company disclaims Management, training and technologies will any intention and has no obligation or responsibility, be provided by EEGI and its affiliates described except as required by law, to update or revise any herein. forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. Therefore, future events and results may vary substantially from what the Company currently foresees. Document Contents Introduction: The Participants & Project Background page 2 The Corporation of McBride & the McBride eco-Industrial Park page 3 About McBride page 4 The new energy source that empowers the project page 5 The emancipation of a community; businesses of the Park page 6 Location maps page 8 Site data page 10 History of the site page 14 The Combined Heat and Power Station Fuel page 16 Type, structure and system page 17 Scope of work for construction & development page 19 Shaping electricity delivery page 20 Super efficiency of systems page 24 World class contract operators page 26 Training for all of the Park's businesses page 27 ecoGROW total natural food circle of sustainable businesses page 30 Hydroponic Horticulture business page 33 Performance forecasts page 38 Capital requirements page 40 Financial forecasts page 42 Aquaculture business page 43 Intensive Recirculating Aquaculture System explained page 44 Planned food fish species page 50 Processing & productivity page 58 Construction budget page 59 Profitability forecasts by species page 60 Silviculture Project page 63 Greenhouse types page 67 HydroNov projects to date page 68 Contacts page 69 © The logos, images, technical data and motifs are the property, intellectual and actual, of the ecoTECH Energy Group, HydroNov Inc. and Dr Nick Savidov: all rights reserved. This document was created on behalf of the Project by ecoTECH Energy Group Incorporated and is copyright EEGI, and C. Victor Hall. Page 1 McBride 2011 Introduction: The Participants & Project Background he objective of this project is to provide “green” power for the Robson Valley, sustainable electricity for the BC Hydro power grid, healthy fresh grown food products for sale to Tlocal and regional British Columbia city populations; to provide employment and sustainable income for the residents of McBride and the central Robson Valley; to reduce the carbon footprint of importation of food from other states and countries (e.g. Mexico, USA) and to replace now defunct former forest products operations with a trio of dynamic new enterprises. The site is at the old Lamming Mills Village, derelict for many years. Rezoning by the Regional District of Fraser Fort George is under review, but we are assured that this community development will have no problems in obtaining whichever zoning or permits are deemed pertinent. The driving initiative for the programs described herein is the planned power station complex that will share the site. The power station, to be built by ecoTECH Energy Group, is set to produce up to 60 megaWatts per hour of power in winter conditions and less during the months of high mountain drainage water run-off (when run-of-river independent power producers produce the most under a power line sharing and delivery shaping agreement), by using renewable forestry derived fuel, for thermal conversion to combustion gas -derived energy. The thermal energy is conveyed via a custom boiler and site hot oil circulatory system from which part is utilized in a steam on steam turbine generation hall of the power station. The mean annualized delivery from the power station will average 36 megaWatts per hour, using combined cycle steam systems and fuelled by forestry-derived fuel. Generation is scheduled to commence construction eighteen months after site ground-breaking, scheduled for Spring 2011, which has been moved ahead to provide local energy to the site businesses as soon as possible. Thermal electricity power generation by-produces heat in the process of generating electricity. The heat that is surplus to power generation is to be utilized by the proposed businesses for production year round, which can also consume some of the exhaust carbon dioxide in the process of transpiration. During the construction phase, one of the large ecoPHASER heat conversion reactors will be bought on line ahead of installation of the power station, so that the planned ancillary businesses can be brought to early operation. Power Station Operation & Management: The power station will be operated and managed on a 24 hour, 365 days per year basis, by North American Energy Services Inc. ( www.naes.com ). N.A.E.S. is the world’s largest contract operations manager with over 27,000 MW of generation capacity under operation. The three sustainable industry businesses planned for the site are: • A HydroNov hydroponic produce greenhouse. • A HydroNov indoor aquaculture fish production facility. • A silviculture (seedling propagation) greenhouse. All the businesses will provide training curricula in arrangements with Caledonia College, and the fuel for the combined heat and power (CHP) facility is to be supplied by the McBride Community Forest operation, building on the expertise from their forest husbandry. ecoTECH is the official developer for HydroNov Inc. ( www.hydronov.com ) for projects in Western Canada involving hydroponic cultivation and aquaculture. Page 2 The McBride eco-Industrial Park he site for the McBride Ecological Industries and Sustainable Production Park is 203 km (126 miles) Southeast of the major transportation hub and Northern Capital of British TColumbia, Prince George. The site is 180 kilometres (112 miles) Northwest of Jasper, Alberta, at map co-ordinates W120o 16’20.64” - W120o 15’28.8” and on the longitudinal line N53o 20’28.32” at its centre. Background: The Corporation of the Village of McBride, British Columbia ounded in 1912 as an “end of steel” railhead town as the Canadian National (successor to Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, Fthe pioneering developer then) line was pushed through the Robson Valley, from Jasper to Fort (now Prince) George and on to Prince Rupert Port, the area originally called “the Flats” at Mile 90 became the Grand Trunk’s planned divisional staging point due to its strategic location between Fort George and Edson, Alberta. The townsite had ample water supplies and large flat area for the installation of a railway marshalling yard and roundhouse. Mile 90 became McBride in honour of then British Columbia Premier, Sir Richard McBride, who led the Province of British Columbia from 1903 to 1915. McBride Village official birth- day was 1st July 1913. The Trans Canada Extension (Yellowhead Route) Highway 16 was eventually built in 1968, making McBride a truly inter modal hub for the Robson Valley. Situated in the Robson Valley amid the Cariboo and the Rocky Mountains, McBride is lo- cated 211 km east of Prince George, British Columbia and 178 km west of Jasper, Alberta on Highway 16 (the recently declared ‘Asia-Pacific Transportation and Manufacturing Corridor’ between the port of Prince Rupert, British Columbia and Edmonton, Alberta). McBride, the economic centre of the Robson Valley , is a vibrant, rural community. Forestry, agriculture, tourism and small
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