Tranche Update on BQE Water Inc.'s Equity Buyback Plan announced on December 6, 2022.

BQE Water Inc. is a Canada-based service provider specializing in water treatment and management for metals mining, smelting and refining. The Company provides operational services for water treatment plants and is a provider of technical services relating to water management. The Company’s technology solutions include metals, sulphate, selenium, and cyanide/ SART. Its metal technology includes BioSulphide & ChemSulphide and Met-IX. Its selenium technology includes Selen-IX and Selen-IX Mobile Pilot Plant. The Cyanide/SART technology includes SART. It provides a range of services, such as water treatment assessment, lab/pilot testing, feasibility and process engineering, project management, commissioning, operations and maintenance, ongoing technical support, and plant optimization. It offers the SART process to remove the metallurgical interference of cyanide-soluble metals and to efficiently recover and recycle cyanide in gold processing.