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Rich Coast Begins Service to BFI-Ford Contract

8 January 1999

Rich Coast Begins Service to BFI-Ford Contract

    DEARBORN, Mich., Jan. 7 -- The following is a statement from
Robert W. Truxell, Chairman of Rich Coast Inc.:

    As stated in an October 28, 1998 press release, Rich Coast Inc.
received approval from BFI to provide vendor
services to BFI's tier one waste services program with Ford Motor Company
.
    BFI requires all vendors to their automotive program to pass a strict
audit and to provide services to their exacting standards.
    Rich Coast has initiated direct service to the program, accepting
non-hazardous industrial wastes from two Ford plants on December 23, 1998.  To
date Rich Coast has received 10 additional shipments from these plants and is
working with BFI personnel to increase the number of plants using its
services.
    "As Rich Coast earns additional business providing recycling and disposal
services to this unique program, we expect hard earned long term revenues to
result," said Dave Johnson, director of sales and marketing.  "We worked very
hard to develop this business, and we are in this for the long haul," Johnson
added.
    Rich Coast Inc. provides cutting edge treatment services for virtually all
non-hazardous industrial and commercial wastes at its 20-acre facility in the
heart of Detroit's heavily industrial auto manufacturing center.  Capabilities
include hard-to-treat oil processing, bio remediation, waste water treatment,
high capacity shredding and laboratory services.
    Visit our website at http://www.richcoastinc.com.
    Safe Harbour Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
of 1995: Statements in this news release looking forward in time involve risks
and uncertainties and actual results may be materially different.