Keith Calder Appointed to the EmberClear Board of Directors

CALGARY, Jan. 26, 2012 /CNW/ - EmberClear (TSXV: EMB) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Keith Calder to the Board of Directors. Mr. Calder is a proven leader in the mining industry having served as the Chief Executive Officer of Walter Energy (NYSE: WLT), a leading U.S. producer and exporter of premium hard coking coal for the global steel industry. Prior to Walter Energy, Mr. Calder was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Western Coal Corp. (TSX: WTN) (TSX: WTN.WT) (AIM: WTN) from December 1, 2009 until the acquisition by Walter Energy in 2011. Prior to joining Western Coal, Mr. Calder served as Managing Director of Rio Tinto's Copper Projects where he had overall responsibility for the execution of a global portfolio of open-pit and underground base metals and diamond projects. Mr. Calder joined Rio Tinto from the Minera Group, as the operations director for its mines in Bolivia and Argentina.

"I see EmberClear in the unique position of advancing low emissions global energy solutions utilizing coal and other hydrocarbons. The worldwide energy opportunities are more open to innovation than ever before and I look forward to contributing to such advances," stated Keith Calder.

"Our assets blend well with the proven track record of accomplishments and global strategic experiences of Mr. Calder. Our stakeholders have a tremendous resource of creativity and pragmatism in Keith. His full integration into our decision making process begins immediately and includes optimizing our coal assets while simultaneously prioritizing our actions regarding our growing project development pipeline," said Albert Lin, CEO of EmberClear.

About EmberClear

EmberClear is an advanced energy development company. Based on global energy needs from a growing population, our solutions are designed to deploy commercial scale energy technologies, which enable dramatic improvements in the efficiency and cleanliness of fossil fuels and alternative energy sources. Our goal is to find economically viable business models with the potential to deliver reduced emissions of over 50% when compared to industry average results in the utilization of coal while also deploying state of the art carbon dioxide capture solutions.

Our expertise is being utilized by a diverse group of governments, utilities and industrial companies spanning a wide range of geographies with the common interest in creating gasification, supercritical (SC), ultra-supercritical (USC), circulating fluidized bed (CFB) and post-combustion carbon dioxide capture (PCC) energy solutions producing electricity, synthetic gas, liquid fuels, fertilizers, and industrial construction products.  Our solutions often include the vast thermal chemistry sciences and processes developed by Huaneng Clean Energy Research Institute (HCERI). HCERI has the most experience and resources devoted to this industry. Our partnership ensures advanced energy solutions are financially sustainable so that the benefits accrue to the global marketplace and not just a few special projects.

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