Earthworks Industries Inc. - CORTINA TRIBAL ATTORNEY FEES

Earthworks Industries Inc. - CORTINA TRIBAL

ATTORNEY FEES

TSX-V: EWK

OTCQB: EAATF

VANCOUVER, BC

,

Dec. 3, 2025

/CNW/ - Earthworks Industries Inc. (the "Company") wishes to

provide an update on the status of the motion for attorney fees filed by the Kletsel Dehe Wintun

Nation of the Cortina Rancheria,

California

(the Tribe), which was reported in our news release

dated

November 14, 2025

.

The Tribe filed its motion for attorneys' fees after the U.S District Court for the Eastern District of

California

dismissed the Complaint filed by the Company's wholly owned U.S. subsidiary, Cortina

Integrated Waste Management Inc., (CIWM), challenging the Order of the U.S. Department of the

Interior's, Board of Indian Appeals (IBIA), which as we reported in our news release dated

October

23, 2025

, purported to cancel the federally approved lease between the Tribe and CIWM.

The Tribe asserts that as the prevailing party in the action it is entitled to recover the attorneys' fees

it incurred in enforcing its rights under the lease. The Tribe seeks fees beginning from

March 2018

,

covering the proceedings before the Regional Director, the appeal to the Interior Board of Indian

Appeals (IBIA), and the District Court litigation.

CIWM does not have the approximately U.S.

$400,000

required to pay the fees claimed or to file an

opposition to the Tribe's motion for the fees.

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its regulation services provider (as that term is defined in

the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of

this News Release.

SOURCE

Earthworks Industries Inc.

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For further information:

For further information, contact: Earthworks Industries Inc., David

Atkinson, President/CEO, 604-669-3143

CO: Earthworks Industries Inc.

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