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DynaMotive Appoints Andrew Kingston as President & CEO

3 May 1999

DynaMotive Appoints Andrew Kingston as President & CEO

    VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 3 -- DynaMotive Technologies
Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: DYMTF) today announced that the Board has
appointed Andrew Kingston as the Company's new President and Chief Executive
Officer effective April 30, 1999.  The appointment follows the resignation of
Bayne Boyes who will remain on the Company's Board of Directors.  Mr. Boyes
held a number of positions with the Company from 1992 to 1998 including
Executive Vice President, Secretary and CFO and was appointed President and
CEO in March 1998.
    "We are extremely pleased to attract a CEO with such a strong combination
of strategic, financial and leadership capabilities," said DynaMotive's
Chairman Richard Lin.  "We believe Mr. Kingston's appointment sends a strong
signal to the market that DynaMotive now has a management team in place to
complete the Company's recent restructuring and fully implement its
commercialization strategy.
    "The Board would also like to thank Mr. Boyes for his contribution to
DynaMotive.  Over the past year, he has led the Company through a transition
period, and has been successful in attracting a high calibre senior management
team to take the Company forward."  Mr. Boyes will resume his duties as
President of Neoventi Technology Corporation, a major shareholder in
DynaMotive Technologies.
    "DynaMotive has the potential to become a world leader in renewable energy
and clean fuels," said Mr. Kingston.  "The Company has gone through a very
difficult period of restructuring, and I will work diligently to establish
investor confidence and create value for shareholders."
    Andrew Kingston, 39, has established an impressive track record in helping
to turn around public companies and increasing shareholder value.  He has held
senior positions in multi-national oil companies, property and investment
corporations and financial institutions in Europe, the USA and South America.
He was a financial advisor on corporate restructuring for Interpetrol S.A., a
South American oil trading company which at the time was partly owned by the
Argentine National Oil Company .  He held a number of positions
with the Gatoil Group of Companies, a fully integrated, privately owned oil
conglomerate, including Managing Director of Gatoil Services (UK) Limited and
Financial Vice President of Gatoil Enterprises Inc. (USA).
    Mr. Kingston was senior advisor to the Chairman of Rotch Property Group
Ltd., a UK property investment and development company with assets in excess
of US $1.8 billion.  Over the past two years, he has worked with a US-based
public internet company where as strategic advisor, he worked on redefining
corporate objectives, formulating corporate strategy and restructuring
operations.  This company currently has a market cap of over US $230 million.
He also worked for Price Waterhouse & Co. and Ducilo S.A., a subsidiary to
E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co.

    DynaMotive Technology Corporation develops and commercializes technologies
that improve industrial efficiency and solve major environmental problems.
The Company is structured into two strategic business units.  The BioOil
Business Unit is commercializing a unique, waste-to-energy technology that
converts low value forest and agricultural waste into liquid BioOil.  This
clean burning liquid fuel can be used as a substitute for fossil fuels to
generate "green" power in stationary diesels and gas turbines.  The Company's
DynaPower Business Unit produces acid free metal cleaning systems that are
used in the wire manufacturing industry.

    Forward Looking Statement
    Statements in this news release concerning the company's business outlook
or future economic performance; anticipated profitability, revenues, expenses,
or other financial items; and statements concerning assumptions made or
expectations as to any future events, conditions, performance or other
matters, are "forward-looking statements" as that term is defined under the
Federal Securities Laws.
    Forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other
factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those
stored in such statements.  Such risks, uncertainties and factors include, but
are not limited to, changes and delays in product development plans and
schedules, customer acceptance of new products, changes in pricing or other
actions by competitors, patents owned by the Company and its competitors, and
general economic conditions, as well as other risks detailed in the Company's
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.