EARTHWORKS RECEIVES GOVERNMENT'S ANSWER TO LEASE COMPLAINT

Canada NewsWire

VANCOUVER, BC, Feb. 4, 2025

TSX-V: EWK
OTCQB: EAATF

VANCOUVER, BC , Feb. 4, 2025 /CNW/ - Earthworks Industries Inc. (the "Company"), has received an Answer to the Complaint, filed by the Company's U.S. attorneys in the U.S District Court for the Eastern District of California on October 31, 2024 , which challenged the Order of the U.S. Department of the Interior's, Interior Board of Indian Appeals (IBIA),  canceling the federally approved lease between the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Cortina Integrated Waste Management Inc. (CIWM) and the Kletsel Dehe Wintun Nation of the Cortina Rancheria, California .

The Answer was filed in accordance with the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 60 days after the U.S. Attorney's office received service of the Complaint.

Management is pleased that the Answer has been filed and looks forward to the litigation process proceeding towards successful resolution.  

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Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance, or achievements of the Company or CIWM to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements are described under the "Risks and Uncertainties Statement" attached to this news release. Forward- looking statements contained herein are made as of the date of this news release. The Company will update these forward-looking statement and Risks and Uncertainties as a result of new information, results, future events, circumstances, or if management's estimates or opinions should change, or otherwise. There can be no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, the reader is cautioned not to place undue reliance on the forwardlooking statements.   

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SOURCE Earthworks Industries Inc.