VANCOUVER, B.C. -- The Company is pleased to announce that the Superior Court of California awarded the Company and its California subsidiary judgment on February 1, 2011 in Case No.  S-1500-CV-264931-DRL (Consolidated with S-1500-CV-266707, SPC) against WESTERN STATES INTERNATIONAL, INC., UNITED PACIFIC ENERGY CORPORATION, (formerly known as GAS AND OIL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.), and INGRID ALIET-GASS (the “Defendants”) in the sum of $18,724,901.58. 

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

“Charles Ross”

Secretary and Director

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