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Blackbird Energy Appoints VP Exploration

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Blackbird Energy Inc. has announced that Mr. Craig Wiebe has been appointed to the position of Vice President, Exploration. Prior to his appointment as Vice President, Exploration, Mr. Wiebe held the position of Consulting Geologist with Blackbird.

Mr. Wiebe is a Professional Geologist with over 20 years exploration and development experience, the majority being in unconventional resource plays. Mr. Wiebe was responsible for establishing a dominant position in a multi-TCF gas play for a major oil and gas exploration and production company, as well as co-founding a successful startup company that was one of the first to develop the Montney with horizontal multi-stage fracs.

Mr. Wiebe has extensive knowledge of the Montney throughout British Columbia and Alberta and also brings considerable operational expertise, having been directly involved with drilling several hundred horizontal wells.

Prior to joining Blackbird Mr. Wiebe held positions of increasing responsibility with AEC Oil and Gas, Grad and Walker Resources, Amber Energy, EnCana and Standard Energy. In addition, Mr. Wiebe has completed consulting engagements for a number of companies including Saguaro Resources and Capio Exploration.

Garth Braun, Blackbird's Chairman, President and CEO stated: "The appointment of Mr. Wiebe as Blackbird's Vice President, Exploration exemplifies our continuing ability to attract top-tier individuals to our team. We look forward to the many impactful contributions to be made by Mr. Wiebe as we continue our leading edge exploration, development and consolidation program at our Elmworth Montney project."

In connection with his appointment Mr. Wiebe has been granted 1,250,000 stock options exercisable at a price of $0.245 until January 21, 2020 pursuant to the terms of the Company's stock option plan. This stock option grant is subject to the acceptance of the TSX Venture Exchange.

With the appointment of Mr. Wiebe as Blackbird's Vice President, Exploration, Mr. Ralph Allen, Blackbird's previous Vice President, Exploration has moved to the role of Vice President, Geoscience, providing a key role in working with Mr. Wiebe on the Company's exploration projects.